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Heliconias
Heliconia clinophila
subgenus Heliconia
section Farinosae
- native to: Panama
- endemic: Panama, Costa Rica
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One of the first inflorescences.
Good drainage is important with this one.
The plant has a tendency to lean over.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2 - 3 meters
- comment: The plant has a tendency to lean over.
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: yellow
- rachis: yellow
- number of bracts: 4
- flower color: yellow with green tip
- flower form: slightly curved
- ovary: light green
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- accession number: 2001-08-11-0001
- location: Panama, Bocas del Toro province, Fortuna Divide, in forest above hwy.
- elevation: about 900 meters
- climate: wet all year
- soil type: loam
- shade percent: 80 %
- habitat notes: In primary forest in loamy soil with lots of leaf litter. We have also seen it growing in very little soil in the spray of a waterfall in Costa Rica, on the wetter Atlantic side of the divide, just as in Panama.
- common at this location: Plants are widely spaced; I have not seen many in all.
- associated species: atropurpurea, vaginalis, regalis, latispatha Orange Gyro
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- date planted: August 2000
- where planted: above stream near bridge
- first flowering: 2001
- comment: Growing well and producing seeds.
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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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