 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exotic
Cut Flowers
Anthuriums
Tropical
Foliage
Rhizomes
Consulting
Products
Care
Erect
Heliconias| Plant |
 |
|||
| Name | Heliconia Caribaea Lamarck cv. Barbados flat | |||
| Habit | Musoid | |||
| Height | 4 - 6 mts | |||
| Inflorescence
|
||||
| Habit | Erect | |||
| Orientation | Distichous | |||
| Bracts | 6 - 10 dark red | |||
| Commercial
facts |
||||
| Shade | 0% to 25% | |||
| Distance between plants | 4 mts x 2.5 mts | |||
| Inflorescences per plant / year | 35 inflorecences | |||
| Months from planting to flowering | 22 months | |||
| Germination rate of rhizomes | 85% | |||
| Average weight of 1 rhizome | 450 grs | |||
| Average weight per commercial inflorescence | 1.3 kgs | |||
| Vase life after cutting | 14 days | |||
| Number of bracts for a commercial inflorescence | 3 - 5 bracts | |||
| Price per rhizome | US $19.95/ Rhizome | |||
| Shoot's growth habit | Compact | |||
| Potential uses | Cut flower, protection of streams, Landscaping. | |||
| Observations | ||||
|
||||
HELICONIA CARIBAEA
Some
of the information was taken from the book:
Heliconias de Antioquia - Guia de Identificacion y Cultivo
Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de Antioquia.
By Victor Maza Barros and Juan Jose Builes Gomez
Heliconias
- Flores Tropicales
