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Sergio, Your H.?2 is colored like H. stricta 'Long Lover'. This is not a registered cultivar name, but you used it for a plant in my garden (see attached). So...
Carla, thank you for the observation, Long lover is in bloom. As soon as I can get to the farm, I will take a picture of it and compare. I will also add it...
Carla, Your mystery heliconia looks to me like H. stricta 'Hummingbird'. http://www.heliconias.net/heliconia_erec_stricta_hummingbird.htm Saludos, Bryan P.S. ...
HI SERGIO AND GROUP. IT COULD BE FERNANDEZII OR LAXA OR DIELSIANA. Cheers Chris ... From: sergio.tejedor To: lobsterclaw@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April...
Hello Bryan and Chris, Bryan, 'Hummingbird' looks like a good match for my plant. I like the name better, too! One difference is that my plant has an invasive...
Hi all- I'm planning on planting two orthos tomorrow: 'Edge of Night' and 'Imperial.' I have two healthy 3gal plants ready to go. Can anyone give me pointers...
Hi Chris, Sorry, are you you from Facenda Citra, who has Mucuna and Jade? Do you sell to Argentina or Bolivia? I want to buy them. Regards Olga Dahan Tartagal...
Just a question for Carla: Does the fact that it "bends with the least stress" has anything to do with the name Long Lover? It has left me wondering...... ...
Well, Carla I am happy for you that you were not the author of the name. It would be fun to find out who was. The stricta seems like the one that used to be...
José, I thought I would find the 'Long Lover' on the famous Costa Flores poster, along with 'Panty Pink' and 'All the Way', but I was wrong. The mystery...
Carla Some years ago, John Kress, who was one the first people who came up the term AFRP had a T-shirt made showing it off very well. I'll see if I can make a...
Victor, I saw that t-shirt at the Puerto Rico conference! Across the top it said AFRP Tour, then listed the collecting locations as if they were rock concert...
Hi Michael, I think 'Edge of Night' is typically shorter than 'Imperial'. At least mine is pretty short. It is in pretty heavy shade and flowers well. I...
Hi Bryan— Thanks…info on orthos seems scant on the internet. I can’t access the Criley document (it’s a log-in academic doc with only the abstract...
My wife has a beautiful plant more than 4 years old in planter , never flowered...divisions I took and planted out at the orchard have flowered for 2 years...
Besides the obvious ones like dwarf jamaican , psitacorums and a lot more , wich of the more spectacular can be grown in planters ...? Maybe all for a...
Hey Luc, I find that they like full sun. I have two in the shade that almost never bloom and two in full sun that bloom like crazy. Bryan ... From: luc...
Hey Everybody, Does anyone know what this heliconia is? I saw it in a couple of gardens in Cali, Colombia, but can't ID it in the two Colombian heliconia...
Hi Chris, Very funny!!! Hopefully will be able to distribute it around Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Australia, Brazil..... very nice pendent heliconia. ...
Luc, Maybe it's too hot in the lowlands? I have an agricultural extension report from Hawaii for Strelitzia reginae that says the temperature has to be between...
Hi Carla , Â No it's no too hot , at the Costco parking lot ( sea level ) they flower almost year round and our house is at 90 meters , the orchard at 300 . I...
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