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islands |
| Plant |
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| Name | Heliconia imbricata (Kuntze) Baker x H. latispatha Bentham cv. Jose Abalo | |
| Habit | Musoid | |
| Height | 3 - 5mts | |
| Inflorescence
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| Habit | Erect | |
| Orientation | Distichous | |
| Bracts | 8 - 16 red, yellow, orange | |
| Commercial
facts |
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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
$ 9.95 / Rhizome |
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| 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. | |
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
| Roses
- Carnations - Chrysantemums - Pompons - Others |
Galapagos
islands |
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