This is one of the few heliconias with red flowers.
My small, and not-so-young plant. I suspect that mariae likes its lowland, year-round rainy climate better than my cool mountain garden.
Two years after the previous photo, and five and a half years after planting, the clump is looking more like the real thing.
The foliage is distinctive for the white coating under the leaves, the reddish lower midrib, the tendency to split, and the way the leaves are held upright.
