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Heliconias
Heliconia bella
subgenus Taeniostrobus
section subgenus without sections
- native to: Panama
- endemic: Panama
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Up close.
With Angel for scale.
H. bella's habitat.
Distinct reticulation under leaves.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 1 - 1.3 meters
- color notes: Maroon midrib above; reticulated venation below; pseudostem has verticle white ovoid markings.
- comment: Necrotic along the edges on the pseudostem.
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: red, darker distally
- rachis: orange/red to pink
- number of bracts: 10 - 14
- flower color: yellow
- ovary: white to pale yellow
- comment: Tips of bracts curl under.
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- accession number: 2000-07-15-00
- location: Panama
- elevation: 1100 meters
- climate: no distinct dry season
- soil type: red slippery clay
- shade percent: 50 - 80 %
- habitat notes: primary forest
- common at this location: Yes, but nowhere else on record.
- associated species: ramonensis, vaginalis, trichocarpa and faunorum
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- date planted: Sept. 2003
- where planted: sector 2 east, sector 1 east; seedling in pot (which didn't survive)
- comment: The two other plants are still alive, and after a year and a half are looking pretty good. We added an overhead sprinlking system which gives them the kind of moisture they want. H. bella is very finicky.
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- Carla Black
- Our other web page is http://www.volcanbaru.com
- e-mail: carla (at) heliconiagarden (.) com
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