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'St. Vincent Red'
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| Cultivar epithet: 'St. Vincent Red' Species/hybrid: Heliconia psittacorum Description: Erect inflorescence; 4 to 6 distichous bracts, bright to deep red shading to orange proximally; rachis orange distally shading to reddish proximally; sepals orange with indistinct green-black area distally; ovary orange distally, pale orange or yellow proximally; pedicel orange. Vegetation musoid. Height 0.8 to 1.8 m (2.5 to 6 feet). Nominant: I. Bannochie (1972?) Publication: Berry, F. and W.J. Kress. 1991. Heliconia: An identification guide. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
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