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Heliconias
Heliconia platystachys
subgenus Griggsia
section Pendulae
- native to: Costa Rica to Colombia
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This individual is near the Panama Canal on the Atlantic coast. This is green-tipped variety.
Overhanging the Interamerican Highway in western Panama. Bracts are red and yellow rather than red and green.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 4 - 5 meters
- color notes: Split leaves and white waxy coating under leaves and on stems helps with ID when not in flower.
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- form: pendent
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: Red with yellow tip and lip; some individuals show more green than yellow.
- rachis: Red, young rachis pinkish yellow.
- ovary: pink with green tip
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- accession number: 2001-06-25-01
- location: Panama, Chiriquí province, Rio San Felix; widespread throughout Panamanian lowlands.
- elevation: 10 meters
- climate: seasonally dry
- soil type: rocky, some clay
- shade percent: 70 %
- common at this location: Quite common here and throughout lowlands.
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- date planted: 2001
- where planted: on tire retaining wall
- first flowering: not yet as of April 2004
- comment: Platystachys is slow-growing in my garden, but is coming along.
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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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