Showing posts with label erect lobster claw (heliconia stricta). Show all posts
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Heliconias galore

Never have i seen so many varieties of heliconias as i did in Singapore.. They aren't native to the area, but have been planted extensively in the city. The heliconia rostratas - lobster claws were a plenty, as were the heliconia stricta or the erect lobster claws



and the heliconia psittacorum - parakeet flower?, that I, like many others mistook for the bird-of-paradise.



I havent identified this one yet, but it does look like a heliconia, doesnt it?