Heliconia
Tropical Americas (a few species Pacific/Indonesia)
By Linnaeus in 1771
Virtually scentless
Boldness, return & exotic beauty
Linnaeus named the genus after Mount Helicon, home of the Greek muses, and the flower lives up to the billing. What reads as a bloom is a fan of waxy bracts, lacquered in scarlet, gold and pink, that lends an Amicis arrangement clean tropical architecture and lines that hold from across a room.
