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Heliconia
3 August 2025
Heliconia rostrata
89% certain
- Family
- Heliconiaceae
- Origin
- The American tropics
- Bloom season
- Warm months
- Colors
- red, yellow, orange
- Habitat
- Rainforest edges, wet gardens, and tropical estates
- Symbolism
- Pride, tropical abundance, and a hidden nectar
A hanging lobster-claw of red and yellow bracts, built for hummingbirds, with banana-like leaves behind it.
Care. Grow in rich, wet soil with heat and wind shelter; frost blackens the leaves overnight.
A note. The true flowers hide inside the bracts; hummingbirds reach them with a curved bill.
Or perhaps
- Bromeliad — 7%
- Bird of paradise — 7%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Aug 3, 2025, 3:46 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 9mm f/2.8
- Focal length
- 9mm
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- Shutter
- 1/119s
- ISO
- 32
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.6687° N, 74.0993° W
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