If kept too wet, there is a good chance they may rot. Average temperatures should be least 60 F, some varieties are much more hardier and can take cooler temperatures. They require bright light and are heavy feeders of any well balanced fertilizer. Beautiful fan shaped open yellow bract with white sepals and yellow to pale green ovary. Makes an excellent container plant.
Bracts are red, pink or crimson with black distal lip.
Its stalk and main shoot is a deep purple. Grows 4' to 18'. Especially large showy lobster claw shaped golden yellow bracts and green keel. This a very vigorous species can grow 5' to 14'. Very slightly spiraled, the beautiful Heliconia's bracts are dark red over most of the cheek, green on the lip and yellow at the base.