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HELICONIA IMBRICATA X LATISPATHA
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Exotic
Cut Flowers
Anthuriums
Tropical
Foliage
Rhizomes
Consulting
Products
Care
Erect
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| Name | Heliconia imbricata (Kuntze) Baker x H. latispatha Bentham cv. Jose Abalo | |||
| Habit | Musoid | |||
| Height | 3 - 5mts | |||
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| Habit | Erect | |||
| Orientation | Distichous | |||
| Bracts | 8 - 16 red, yellow, orange | |||
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| Shade | 20% to 40% | |||
| Distance between plants | 2.5 mts x 4 mts | |||
| Inflorescences per plant / year | 30 inflorecences | |||
| Months from planting to flowering | 14 months | |||
| Germination rate of rhizomes | 90% | |||
| Average weight of 1 rhizome | 400 grs | |||
| Average weight per commercial inflorescence | 450 kgs | |||
| Vase life after cutting | 6 days | |||
| Number of bracts for a commercial inflorescence | 2 - 5 bracts | |||
| Price per rhizome | US $ 49.95 / Rhizome | |||
| Shoot's growth habit | Compact | |||
| Potential uses | Cut flower for special events, protection of streams, landscaping. | |||
| Observations | It's distichous, but it has the tendency to be spiral in the last bracts. | |||
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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
