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Heliconias
Heliconia lindsayana
subgenus Heliconia
section Tortex
- native to: Panama
- endemic: Panama
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A beautiful light-weight.
Dark green leaves with light mid-rib.
In the wild in Bocas del Toro province.
H. lindsayana habitat.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 1.5 - 2.5 meters
- color notes: Dark green leaf and light midrib above; white waxy coating below. Maroon petioles.
- comment: The vegetation is very attractive.
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- form: erect
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: Light red/pink
- rachis: yellow
- number of bracts: 6
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- accession number: 2001-08-01-02
- location: Given to me by a friend who bought it at the Sunday market in El Valle, Coclé, Panama. I have subsequently seen it in that area. I have also seen it in Bocas del Toro province near the Fortuna Divide.
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- date planted: August 2001
- where planted: sector 1 west
- first flowering: 2003
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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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