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Heliconias
Heliconia unID from San Lorenzo
subgenus Griggsia
section I'm uncertain
- native to: Panama
- comment: We don't have an ID on this. Maybe it's just H. longa.
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What is this?
The lip folds over to hide the flower base.
Tan velvet on the rachis
This healthy clump was the only one we saw of this mystery plant.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 7.25 meters
- leaf blade: 130 centimeters
- leaf blade: 153 - 36 L - W in centimeters
- color notes: Dark stems.
- stems per clump: many
- comment: Leaves split with age.
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- form: pendant
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: Red with thin yellow line along the lip.
- rachis: Red with a covering of tan velvet.
- number of bracts: 12 or more - the infl. were not fully developed.
- overall length: 80, but not fully mature centimeters
- bract size: 20 - 4 L - W in centimeters
- flower color: yellow, darker distally
- flower form: slightly curved
- ovary: white, but not developed
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- accession number: 2004-09-13-04
- location: Panama, Colon province, 3 km from Ft. San Lorenzo
- elevation: 30 meters
- climate: Atlantic, but with some dry season
- soil type: loam
- shade percent: 50 %
- habitat notes: Primary forest, but along a cleaned road which allowed more light to enter.
- common at this location: This big plant is the only one we saw.
- associated species: latispatha, platystachys, irrasa
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- date planted: 15-09-2004
- number of rhizomes: 2
- where planted: under guamo in native garden; west of guamo with curtispatha and Crocodile.
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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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