'Chartreuse'
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Cultivar epithet: 'Chartreuse' Species/hybrid: Heliconia caribaea
Description: Erect inflorescence; 11 to
12 distichous bracts, brilliant yellow-green, yellow at base, on
proximal lip, and on upper bracts along proximal keel, bracts on younger
inflorescences nearly all green; rachis yellow; sepals green distally
and white proximally; ovary and pedicel white. Vegetation musoid, with
white waxy coating on stem, petiole, and lower surface of leaf blade.
Height 3.6 to 5.5 m (12 to 18 feet).
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