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Heliconia aurantiaca, the Golden Dwarf or Yellow Heliconia, is a rhizomatous herbaceous plant up to about 1.5 m tall with banana-like leaves and erect red-to-orange flower bracts. It needs warm, humid, bright conditions with consistent moisture and is grown mainly in tropical gardens or as a warm-climate container plant.
Heliconia aurantiaca, sometimes known as the Golden Dwarf Heliconia or Yellow Heliconia, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the monotypic Heliconia family, the Heliconiaceae.
Heliconia aurantiaca naturally occurs from southern Mexico south into Costa Rica.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heliconia aurantiaca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
