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Carla's Heliconia Garden |
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Heliconias
Heliconia chartacea Sexy Pink
subgenus Griggsia
section Pendulae
- common name: Sexy Pink
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Yup, pretty sexy.
My first bud.
Tattered, as usual. I try to think "palm" from a distance, and it looks better to me.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 3 meters
- color notes: The whole plant is covered in white waxy coating.
- comment: The leaves split into a million tatters at the least provocation.
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- form: pendent
- orientation: slow spiral (less than 90 deg. per bract)
- bract color: Powder pink with green lip, darker along the edge.
- rachis: red
- number of bracts: 13
- flower color: green
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- accession number: 2000-07-15-19
- location: Costa Rica, Highland Heliconia
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- date planted: July 2000
- first flowering: October 2003
- comment: Once I learned that it's a highland species, mine seems to be doing better. I didn't expect much of it when it was young, but I was mistaken and it is recovering nicely.
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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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