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Heliconias
Heliconia hirsuta Yellow Panama
subgenus Stenochlamys
section Zingiberastrum
- native to: Panama
- endemic: PA
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This is a very pretty example.
"Tell me again why you are looking for these plants..."
The bracts are almost invisible amongst the flowers and ovaries
These plants hide pretty well in the grassy undergrowth.
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- habit: zingiberoid
- height: 1 - 2.5 meters
- leaf blade: almost none centimeters
- stems per clump: 2 - many
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: yellow, sometimes green at base
- rachis: greenish yellow
- number of bracts: 3 - 6
- flower color: yellow with black tip
- flower form: straight
- ovary: yellow
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- accession number: 2004-08-14-02
- location: Panama, Panama province, hills south of Ipetí
- elevation: 343 meters
- climate: Pacific with dry season
- shade percent: 30 - 77 %
- habitat notes: Secondary forest which suffered a hot forest fire three years ago.
- common at this location: Yes; rather widely spread individuals in clumps of 3 - 5 stems.
- associated species: metallica
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- date planted: collected seeds only
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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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