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Heliconias currently in cultivation in Puerto Rico - Heliconia Society ...

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This notion applies to other varieties, as well. Such aspossible crosses between erect ones with pendent ones.Sexual reproduction (seeds), through cross poll<strong>in</strong>ation byvisit<strong>in</strong>g humm<strong>in</strong>gbirds, birds, bats and <strong>in</strong>sects is unavoidable.They are the ma<strong>in</strong> liv<strong>in</strong>g organisms which poll<strong>in</strong>ate the<strong>in</strong>florescences.This mode of promiscuous sexual reproduction accounts forthe phenotype phenomenon. The phenotype phenomenonhas universal effects on our heliconias. It helps to create newvarieties which did not exist before.I will be show<strong>in</strong>g some examples of such new evolutionaryvariations <strong>in</strong> color and shapes.

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