How to Identify Heliconiaceae

Key Identification Features

• The flowers have a distinctive structure that evolved to suit both hummingbird pollinators and insect herbivores; flowers develop upside-down and at right angles to their bracts.
• Thanks to its distinctive features, H.
• psittacorum, the parrot heliconia, is especially distinctive: its greenish-yellow flowers have black spots and red bracts, which resemble the bright plumage of parrots.

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