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Heliconia bihai (macawflower)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Heliconia bihai (red palulu) of the Heliconiaceae family is an erect herb typically growing taller than 1.5 m. It is native to northern South America and the West Indies. It is especially common in northern Brazil and the Guianas but also found in Hispaniola, Jamaica, the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Venezuela and Colombia. Other names by which the plant is commonly known include balisier and macawflower.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Structure [2]  Herb

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Eulampis jugularis (Purple-throated Carib)[4]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Plant–hummingbird interactions in the West Indies: floral specialisation gradients associated with environment and hummingbird size, Bo Dalsgaard, Ana M. Martín González, Jens M. Olesen, Jeff Ollerton, Allan Timmermann, Laila H. Andersen, Adrianne G. Tossas, Oecologia Volume 159, Number 4, 757-766 (2009)
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0