	Carla's Heliconia Garden

Heliconias

NAME

Heliconia lennartiana (wag colors)

subgenus Heliconia

section Heliconia

native to: Panama
endemic: Panama
comment: Since this is native to high elevation in Panama we have eliminated both wagneriana and stricta from the list of possibilities. Our other lennartianas look very similar in vegetation and inflorescence shape.

PHOTOS

This looks something like H. wagneriana in the photos, but if you saw it in person, you wouldn't call it a wag.

The description of where this plant came from, in the highlands, doesn't coincide with H. wagneriana. However, I leave the discussion open until I actually see it in the wild.

VEGETATION

habit: musoid
height: 3 meters

INFLORESCENCE

form: erect
orientation: distichous
bract color: Red-orange, yellow keel and strip close to lip, lip with green stripe.
rachis: red
number of bracts: 6 - 7

ACCESSION DATA

accession number: 2003-09-20-01
location: Not in its native location. Collected from a garden in Panama, Chiriquí province, Buena Vista. Said to be native of Cerro Colorado, Chiriquí.
elevation: Collected at 700; supposedly native at about 1000 meters

MY SPECIMEN

date planted: September 2003
where planted: sector 2 west
comment: The young plant is doing well.

CONTACT ME

Carla Black
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e-mail: carla (at) heliconiagarden (.) com