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Heliconias
Heliconia nutans (large spiral)
subgenus Griggsia
section Contortex
- native to: Panama and Costa Rica
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Some plants spiral 180 degrees to put the bracts on the same plane.
Other plants spiral with less twist.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2.5 - 3 meters
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- form: pendant
- orientation: tight spiral (more than 90% deg. bract)
- bract color: clear red
- rachis: red
- number of bracts: 8 - 10
- ovary: yellow
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- accession number: 2000-03-01-01
- location: Panama, Chiriquí province, Los Pozos
- elevation: 1400 meters
- climate: seasonally dry
- soil type: loam
- shade percent: 50 - 75 %
- habitat notes: secondary forest
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- date planted: 2000
- where planted: above driveway, nook
- first flowering: 2001
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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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