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Heliconia psittacorum (?)
Spotted on Feb 15, 2011
Submitted on Jun 13, 2011
11 Comments
Any news on this one Ian?
Hi Ian, Lovely shots. I may be able to help you identify this heliconia. Perhaps you can give a description of the size of the inflorescence, height of the plant, and length and width of the leaves. This looks like the Heliconia psittacorum. However, I was unable to find any of that species with green seeds. That fact may be due to climate conditions or geographic range of this species.
They are similar, thank you susan.
some similarity to this one of mine shot in Costa Rica:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/634...
Juan your realisation like every Ape is not Monkey...!!
When i showed the photo to friends, without a pause they said Bird of Paradise! hahaha... I guess that's common name :D doing more search I found a more likely plant Heliconia psittacorum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconia_p...
Oh... I see.. that's new to me. thanks for the info.. So the one that's very common in the Philippines is Heliconia
@Steffi.. every Heliconia is not Bird of Paradise..what I learned from Project Noah....
Heliconia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconia
that's bird of paradise
you are probably right :D thanks!
perhaps a bird of paradise flower?