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Heliconias
Heliconia wagneriana
subgenus Heliconia
section Heliconia
- native to: Central America
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Always pretty, even if it is quite common.
Showing sunburn in full sun at 1320 meters in my yard. Few heliconias look good out in the open at our elevation.
Dark stemmed variety.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 6 meters
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- form: erect
- orientation: distichous
- bract color: Green at base and lip, yellow and pink cheek.
- rachis: Not readily visible.
- number of bracts: 13
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- accession number: 1999-06-01-0001
- location: Panama, Bocas del Toro province, Rambala
- elevation: 20 meters
- climate: wet all year
- shade percent: 0 - 50 %
- habitat notes: In any open space in this area.
- common at this location: very
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- date planted: 1999
- where planted: near stream
- first flowering: 2000
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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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