A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, ...

A recent study highlights a troubling reality for Heliconia, a genus of tropical plants celebrated for their stunning, bird-shaped flowers. Published today, March 7, in the journal Plants, People ...

Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers, which come in a variety of vivid hues, including intense yellows, fiery oranges and rosy reds. Their reproductive structures are composed of waxy, ...

But a few plants, such as my Heliconia plants, which are very tropical, will even have their roots damaged by a hard freeze. Usually I dig them and put them into the greenhouse for the winter.

But the plants were surprisingly co-operative when it came to hummingbird pollinations. The violet sabrewing hummingbird is one of two pollinators that seems to be preferred by the plant Heliconia ...

One of the best ways to irrigate moisture-loving plants such as heliconia, in containers or in the ground, is a low-volume or drip irrigation system. These can provide plenty of water, ...

The two species of plants that Kress studied on the islands of St. Lucia and Dominica in the Lesser Antilles are called Heliconia, often known to Bay Area growers of tropical flowers as "parrot's ...

Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers, which come in a variety of vivid hues, including intense yellows, fiery oranges and rosy reds. Their reproductive structures are composed of waxy, ...

Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers, which come in a variety of vivid hues, including intense yellows, fiery oranges and rosy reds. John Kress. Most of the ...

Imperiled Plants. The team discovered that 87 Heliconia species (47% of the genus) are threatened with extinction, nearly half of the entire group.Alarmingly, all but one of these threatened ...