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Carla's Heliconia Garden |
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Heliconias
Heliconia longa
subgenus Griggsia
section Longae
- native to: Nicaragua to Ecuador
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Flower in Bocas del Toro.
Plant on Carti road in Panama province.
Near Penonome in Cocle province.
This is my plant at five and a half years old, finally blooming for the first time.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 4 - 5 meters
- color notes: Maroon stems; white waxy coating under leaves of most, but not all, plants.
- stems per clump: many
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- form: pendent
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: Red, sometimes with thin yellow line on lip.
- rachis: Red, sometimes yellow on younger rachis.
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- accession number: 1999-08-19-0004
- location: Panama, Bocas del Toro province, on highway between Rambala and Fortuna
- elevation: 300 meters
- climate: wet all year
- shade percent: 50 %
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- date planted: August 1999
- where planted: near lower house
- first flowering: March 2005, finally!
- comment: My plant is really huge! It took a long time to bloom.
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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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