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Heliconias
Heliconia bihai Yellow Dancer
subgenus Heliconia
section Heliconia
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This is a great cut flower.
Some plants have maroon stems; others are all green.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 4 meters
- color notes: Some plants have maroon stems and spotched petioles. Others are all green.
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: Yellow, with some green on keel and tip.
- rachis: yellow
- number of bracts: 8
- comment: A great cut flower.
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- accession number: 2000-07-15-02
- location: Costa Rica, vivero Tropicales Arenal
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- date planted: July 2000
- where planted: naranjilla patch
- first flowering: 2002
- comment: I liked Yellow Dancer so much that I ended up with three different plants bought at three different times! The mistake was due in part to the long lag time from planting to flowering in my garden. But it's okay because Yellow Dancer is a great cut flower, and blooms all year.
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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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