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Heliconias
Heliconia thomasiana
subgenus Heliconia
section Tortex
- native to: Panama
- endemic: Panama
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Pretty, no?
In the wild in Panama.
Clump in the wild.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 3 - 4 meters
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- form: erect
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: Red with yellow keel
- rachis: Red above, some yellow below
- number of bracts: 3 - 5
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- accession number: 2003-08-30-04
- location: Panama, Veraguas, Santa Fe
- elevation: 858 meters
- climate: wet all year
- shade percent: 80 %
- habitat notes: primary and secondary forest
- common at this location: Rather common in the area.
- associated species: latispatha Orange Gyro, trichocarpa, pogonantha var. xanthotricha
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- date planted: 2003
- where planted: sector 3
- first flowering: not yet as of April 2005
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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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