Heliconia bihai L.

Stout plants attaining 6 m.; leaves broadly oblong, 90-120 cm. long, 20-30 cm. broad, broadly obtuse at the base; inflorescences erect, the peduncle stout, 15-50 cm. long; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, obtusely perfoliate at the base, thus concealing the true rachis, the tips uniformly ascending in both flower and fruit, usually reddish with greenish or yellowish margins and keel, occasionally wholly reddish or yellowish, glabrous or essentially so; perianth 4-6 cm. long, greenish; fruit oblongoid, about 1.5 cm. long.

Not known

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.