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Carla's Heliconia Garden |
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Heliconias
Heliconia stricta Royal Tagami
subgenus Heliconia
section Helcionia
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The waxy coating is distinctive.
This plant does very well in my garden.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 4 meters
- stems per clump: many
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: dark red with yellow lip and green keel; waxy markings left as bracts unfold.
- rachis: green, yellow, and red on lower rachics; yellow and red on upper.
- number of bracts: 5
- flower color: green with white tip
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- accession number: 1999-06-01-03
- location: Costa Rica, Highland Heliconia
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- date planted: bought rhizome in 1999; planted out in 2000
- where planted: under guamo
- first flowering: 2001
- comment: This is one of the healthiest and best-flowering plants I have.
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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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