Meet the Heliconias

Heliconias are perennial herbaceous plants whose height varies from 70 cm to 10 m. The bracts are the most showy organs of a heliconia, generally they are of primary or mixed colors. They are grouped in the Zingiberales order, and are known abroad as tropical exotics, due to their variety of colors, shapes, sizes and long durability. They are distributed from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn,…