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Heliconias
Heliconia lankesteri var. lankesteri
subgenus Heliconia
section Farinosae
- native to: Costa Rica
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Note the turned-out lip.
The highest elevation heliconia I know of.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2.5 - 3.5 meters
- color notes: Stems and under-side midribs are splotched with maroon.
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: yellow
- rachis: yellow
- number of bracts: 12
- ovary: green
- comment: Note turned-out lip.
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- accession number: 2004-07-07-03
- location: Costa Rica, Cerro de la Muerte, 12 km from Cartago
- elevation: 1940 meters
- climate: Often foggy, marked dry season.
- soil type: Good loamy soil.
- shade percent: 50 %
- habitat notes: Alongside highway with houses and a car repair shop nearby; steep slopes not cleared, so a heliconia has a chance.
- common at this location: There are a number of plants here.
- associated species: lankesteri var. rubra
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- date planted: 08-07-04
- number of rhizomes: 4
- where planted: below entry at west end; just past orchid log
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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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