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Heliconias
Heliconia orthotricha Total Eclipse
subgenus Heliconia
section Heliconia
- common name: Total Eclipse
- comment: Is this ID correct?
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Can you help me with the species and variety of this one?
Now that the plant is older, it has a tendency to lean over and even break.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 4 - 5 meters
- stems per clump: many (much stronger than the orthotricha I labeled Edge of Nite)
- comment: The plant has a tendency to lean to the breaking point. An effect of shade perhaps.
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: dark red with darker lip, then bordered in very fine green line
- rachis: covered by bracts
- number of bracts: 8 - 10
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- accession number: 1999-06-01-10
- location: Costa Rica, Highland Heliconia
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- date planted: 1999
- 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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