Hello! Heliconia meeana used to be considered within the morphological variation of H.chartacea. Margret Mee ( a famous artist) working in upper Rio Negro made...
Happy New Year to y'all. I have not seen the pictures you mention, however, the plant to me is a yellow form of H. chartacea, and the correct name should be...
Feliz Año Nuevo to all the members of the lobsterclaw group! To those of you who are "new" and haven't read my previous e- mails on this particular subject....
Hi all, Again I have a question about the flowering season of some Heliconia species. Does anybody knows when H. latispatha and H. kingulata flower during the...
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Hi Everyone Both sp. flower all year round in Brisbane 27' south. The only limiting factor is cold weather. If growth is interupted by cold , usually resulting...
Dear Herman, My orange gyro started about a month ago and my distans is coming out now. However I'm in Australia. Kress & Berry's I.D. guide say all year...
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Hello all and a happy new year! I was reading some of the older posts and a question popped into my head. Bruce mentioned 'longissima' in a paragraph below. Is...
Hello all: There was a picture of H carmelae posted on the old listserver. Could we have another look at this heliconia? Also, does anyone know which section...
When cultivating heliconias, is it OK to let them go limp once in a while during hot dry days/weeks? (The eventual result might be the drying up of the entire...
Hi Calvin, We have a well drained soil, and can go through 3-5 months of drought. We never water our heliconias, and established clumps seem to have no...
Hi Calvin and all, I found the two H. carmelae photos you asked about and posted them to the the photo section. Bruce took his photo at the HSI conference in ...
Hello, We were away for a couple of months, escaping the worst of the rainy season here in Panama. It is great to be home! I arrived to some nice surprises in...
Hello, This time I have a problem. A few plants all in the same sector have been showing this yellowing for about a year now. The problem might be traveling...
Hi Carla, Welcome home!!! Do any of the leaves turn completely brown? Have any stems or plants turned brown and died? It could be a root fungus, possibly...
Hello Bryan, Thanks for the diagnosis. I agree that the yellowing is unlikely to be a deficiency because most of my plants thrive under the same conditions. ...
Carla, There are many products available to control root fungus infections, and what is available here may not be in Panama. I would suggest that you go to a...
Bryan, Thanks for the good information. I'm going to dig up and burn the clumps which have been infected the longest time. I will try to save rhizomes from the...
Carla, You're welcome. Remember that these are common soil fungi, and it is probably impossible to get rid of them. Even if you burn the clumps, the fungi...
Hi Carla, Allthough fungus can be the cause of youre problem I also can imagine that 75% shade is quit a lot. Our Heliconias in the greenhouse (with artificial...
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Hello Herman, It's nice to hear from you! It's a good observation about big plants needing more light to meet their photosynthesis requirements. I will try...
Hi Carla, The University of Hawaii has a really good brief on pest control management in heliconias on their website. Unfortunately, I'm to much of a computer...
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Hello Ann, Nice to meet you. Thanks for the reminder about the UH pest control information. I came across their website and the info a number of years ago, and...
Hola grupo: Tengo mas de 50 plantas en el interior de mi casa (en un tipo jardin de invierno) las plantas ya tienen aproximadamente 1,60cm de alto, lo que...
Hmm.. from the looks of the leaves (yellowing between veins) it might be nutritional deficiency. Caused by: 1. If the soil on this affected area is the same ...
On another note, if the plants have been affected by the P & P fungi highlighted by Bryan, they would show the fllowing symptoms: 1. browning of leaf edges...
I must say that a rule cannot be followed on all species, since there are swamp loving species, such as marginata and paludigena, and there are species needing...
Its me again, Calvin: Since I described H. longissima, I did so because I considered that it had sufficient differing characters from the related species, to...
Hola Patricia, Posiblemente depende de la especie de heliconia que tienes. Las psittacorums, por ejemplo, probablemente necesitan mas luz que H. stricta...
