Lovely picture, Sibdas ji.
More details from Indiantreepix Database:
*Heliconia rostrata * *Heliconiaceae* *Hanging lobster claw * At
bannerghatta butterfly park on 25.8.07; in Badlapur- 21/3/09;
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Some extracts from Wikipedia link (for pictures/ more details, pl. click on
the link):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconia
*Heliconia* is a genus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus> of about 100 to
200 species <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species> of flowering
plants<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_plant>native to the
tropical
Americas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas> and the Pacific
Ocean<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean>islands west to
Indonesia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia>. Common names for the
genus include *lobster-claws*, *wild plantains* or *false bird-of-paradise*.
The last term refers to their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise
flowers (*Strelitzia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelitzia>*).
Collectively, these plants are also simply referred to as *heliconias*.
The leaves <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf> of these plants are 15-300 cm
long, oblong, growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often
longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their
flowers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower>are produced on long,
erect or drooping
panicles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicle>, and consist of brightly
colored waxy bracts, with small true flowers peeping out from the bracts.
The growth habit of heliconias is similar to
*Canna<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_(plant)>
*, *Strelitzia*, and bananas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana>, to which
they are related.
Heliconias are grown for the florist's trade and as landscape plants. The
flower of *H.
psittacorum<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heliconia_psittacorum&action=edit&redlink=1>
* (Parrot
Heliconia<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parrot_Heliconia&action=edit&redlink=1>)
is especially distinctive, its greenish-yellow flowers with black spots and
red bracts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bract> reminding of the bright
plumage <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumage> of
parrots<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot>
.
Several cultivars <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar> and
hybrids<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)>have been
selected for garden planting, including:
- *H. psittacorum* × *H. spathocircinata*, both species of South
America<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America>,
mainly Brazil <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil>
- *H. × rauliniana* = *H. marginata*
(Venezuela<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela>)
× *H. bihai* (Brazil <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil>)
- *H. chartacea* cv. 'Sexy Pink'
2009/5/2 sibdas ghosh <[email protected]>
> Heliconium rostratum-
> Commonly known as Parrot's beak and also lobster claws
> (Heliconiaceae) From Prantik, Santiniketan, 24.04.09
>
> >
>
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