parrot's beak heliconia

Description:

Also called parakeet flower, parrot's flower, parrot's plantain, false bird-of-paradise, it is a perennial herb native to the Caribbean and northern South America. It is often cultivated as a tropical ornamental plant. The plants are rhizome growers, producing a new flower stem from an existing stem. Once the stem has flowered it will not re-flower.

Habitat:

Planted as an ornamental on a school campus nestled in the lower foothills of the Cyclops mountains. This is in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.