Heliconia schiedeana

Helliconia schideana medium size reaches a height between 1,2 and the 2,4 m and vertical summer produce inflorescences with bracts bright red and yellow flowers.

Natural Southern Mexico, It is one of the toughest Heliconias and one of the few surviving in colder climates, area including USDA 8.

He will die to ground level by a frost, but will return in the spring out of the underground rhizome.

Description

They are herbaceous 1 a 3 meters high, simple leaves, alternate, Full range, acuminate apex and rounded base, bright green clearer by the undersides, oblong 20 a 300 cm long, marked with prominent venation and midrib on the undersides.

Generally the petiole, from 15 a 50 cm long, surrounds the stem.

Inflorescences produced at the end of each stem and the base of the plant. Panicles with various colored bracts (Red, yellow, orange) and nectar flowers, They attract the hummingbird, with which these species are associated to pollinate.

The fruits are drupes. It needs heat and moisture for its development.