Hi, I guess I'm the 6th caller!!! Just realized that daily digest isn't going to work for this group because the images are taken out. Oh well, but I still...
Hello I have uploaded a picture of a local vellerigera that has a thick furry rachis full of creamish hair. (not very pretty IMHO). Anyone got other color...
Hi, In reply to Calvin's question, I have posted a picture of one on my farm. It is a very popular commercial cut flower, locally calle d "She Kong." Let me...
Greg Thanks for the pic. I noticed the following differences: Calvin's vell: Very hairy rachis, smooth bracts Greg's vell: hairy rachis and hairy bracts Is...
Hi Bruce, Do you know where the purple-leafed atropurpurea is from? I have never seen anything like it! Here is a photo of atro in the Panamanian rainforest. ...
Bruce's H atropurpurea looked like it drank more than its fair share of grape juice or red wine. Carla, we get the attached picture when we read all these...
Carla: If you go up to the top at El Copé and as you start descending towards the Atlantic, you go down by foot on your left a couple of hundred meters you...
Jose, I have been to the spot at El Cope you are talking about; I'll keep an eye out for it next time I'm there. there's lots of other neat stuff in the area! ...
Hello, Angel brought this flower home from a nearby flower farm which has heliconias. That in itself is interesting for us, because we have never met anyone in...
Hi Carla: Hope you got my e-mail yesterday. Re. basal bloomers: this is a symptom of senility , especially in zingiberoid plants, although I have seen H....
Hello all: Just a comment: I have this heliconia in flower right now, and in my case, it started having both regular and basal blooms from almost the...
Hola Emilia-Sherry: Si, por la foto es una hirsuta. Yo le comenté a Carla sobre la teoría de que cuando estas plantas tienen ese comportamiento es un...
Hello Sherry, Like yours, the one I saw had both basal and regular blooms and was about 10 feet tall, also zingiberoid and it looks like a hirsuta to me. I am...
Hi Everyone These two forms were seen in Napo Province in Ecuador. The Tena form was at higher elevation. Note the waxy leaf undersides. cheers Bruce...
Very exciting and interesting! Could any of these 'vellergera' forms with waxy leaves had been a 'H danielsiana'? Kress/berry's book described H danielsiana as...
Hello, Here is a photo of my vellerigera, bought in Costa Rica. Is this purple-underside foliage more common than Bruce's all-green waxy variation? Carla...
I 've noticed that most of the Zingiberoid species tend to throw basal inflorescences. I've seen basal flowers on hirsuta, schumanniana, subulata, which is...
Carla All the cultivated vellerigera in Australia have the purple underside to the leaves. It just goes to show the diversity of Heliconia out in their...
Hello: Anybody got tips on how to get a supersized caribaea bloom? Would any of the following work? a. feed lots of potassium and phos at the last leaf stage...
Hi Calvin, I think the best way to get supersized blooms on any heliconia is just to have a super healthy, super vigorous plant. I definitely wouldn't take...
Hi, Hee are some photos of the basal bloomer I was referring to a while back. In the photo of the whole plant the man is holding a stem with a normal bloom....
Here's a prolific basal bloomer from Sergio Tejedor's farm in Jayuya. It also had terminal blooms. ID please??? Bryan _______________________________ Do you...
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