WorldFloraDB - Heliconia latispatha

Characteristics

Plants 2--4 m, pseudostem well-developed. Leaves 3--5 per shoot, green, longest blade 75--150  18--33 cm. Inflorescences erect, to 45 cm; cincinnal bracts spirally arranged, 8--13 per inflorescence, middle bract with outer surface orange and/or red and glabrous, 14--19.5 cm, 5--7 cm wide at base. Flowers 10--15 per cincinnus; perianth green, yellow, or orange with dark green sepal margins, sometimes sparsely puberulent along fused sepal margins, 3.5--4.6 cm, 7--8 mm wide at gibbous base, nearly straight; sepal margins, fused, dark green, glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulous. . Drupes blue, 10--13  8--9 mm. 2n = 24.

More

Stout plants 1.5-3.0 m. tall; leaves broadly oblong, 60-90 cm. long, 13-18 cm. broad, obtuse at the base, the sheath of about equal length; inflorescence erect or nearly nodding, the peduncle rather slender, 15-30 cm. long, glabrous or very inconspicuously pilosulose; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, broadest toward the base, the lowermost produced into more or less conspicuous leafy blades, the upper 12-18 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, yellow or golden-orange more or less suffused with red, glabrous; perianth about 4 cm. long, greenish yellow.

A large herb. It grows 4 m tall. The flowering shoots are erect and 45 cm long. The flowers are green, yellow or orange. They have red or orange bracts around them.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

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Mature height (meter)

2.0 - 4.0

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Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Nitrogen fixer

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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the moist lowlands. Cairns Botanical Gardens.

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Usage

Uses	environmental use
Edible	fruits leaves shoots
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Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.

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