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Heliconia lingulata
An variety of Heliconia growing in the Botanical Gardens at the Selva Verde Lodge. Common names: False Bird-of-Paradise, Flowering Banana, Lobster Claw, Macaw Flower, Parrot's Flower, Wild Plantain. It is quite big: it can reach 2-6 m in height. The leaves can grow 1-2 m long. They resemble the leaves of banana. The inflorescence bears 7 to 25 bracts, red or orange at the tip and yellow at the base, from which emerge a small, pale yellow flower.
Selva Verde Lodge is in fragile tropical rainforest, located in the midst of the 500 acre Sarapiqui Rainforest Preservation Area in the lush Caribbean lowlands of northeastern Costa Rica.
Yes, me too... and there are so many different varieties in Costa Rica. I found a great link, but it's slow going checking them all with my slow little internet dongle! Perserverance furthers!
http://www.heliconiasocietypr.org/helico...
Spotted on Jul 16, 2013
Submitted on Nov 9, 2013
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