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Carla's Heliconia Garden |
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Heliconias
Heliconia tortuosa
subgenus Heliconia
section Tortex
- native to: Nicaragua to Panama
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This is the heliconia that grows wild in the woods near my house.
Current clump.
A one-time clump in my yard.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 1 - 4 meters
- comment: Flowers at 1 m in shady forest, grows to 4 m in favorable garden conditions.
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- form: erect
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: red
- rachis: red
- number of bracts: 7
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- accession number: 2003-08-30-040
- location: Panama, Chiriquí province, Volcan
- elevation: 1400 meters
- climate: seasonally dry
- soil type: loam
- shade percent: 30 - 80 %
- habitat notes: Tortuosa is common in the wider area around our house, in all kinds of habitats from forest to cleared roadsides.
- common at this location: Quite common.
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- date planted: 1998
- first flowering: 1999
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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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