heliconias

Set in a garden of tropical heliconias, the complex of wood-panelled bungalows includes a fair-sized outdoor pool.

South America: Perfect posadas Vicky Baker 2010

It is certain, however, that heliconias comprise a monophyletic group of their own.

Heliconia - The Panda's Thumb 2009

And then when the liana ran down again to the ground the difficulty of picking it out under the mass of lycopods, large-leaved heliconias, rosy-tasseled calliandras, rhipsalas encircling it like the thread on an electric reel, between the knots of the large white ipomas, under the fleshy stems of the vanilla, and in the midst of the shoots and branchlets of the grenadilla and the vine.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

The forest floor was an intricate maze of white roots, prayer plants, and herbaceous heliconias, lush and brilliant.

One River Wade Davis 1996

From the edge of trails creepers lash at the base of trees, and herbaceous heliconias and calatheas give way to broad-leafed aroids that climb into the shadows.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The forest floor was an intricate maze of white roots, prayer plants, and herbaceous heliconias, lush and brilliant.

One River Wade Davis 1996

From the edge of trails creepers lash at the base of trees, and herbaceous heliconias and calatheas give way to broad-leafed aroids that climb into the shadows.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The savannahs, which are covered with grasses and slender plants, present a surprising luxuriance and diversity of vegetation; piles of granite blocks rise here and there, and, at the margins of the plains, occur deep valleys and ravines, the humid soil of which is covered with arums, heliconias, and llianas.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Great broad-leaved heliconias, leathery melastomæ, and succulent-stemmed, lop-sided leaved and flesh-coloured begonias are abundant, and typical of tropical American forests; but not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra.

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

The savannahs, which are covered with grasses and slender plants, present a surprising luxuriance and diversity of vegetation; piles of granite blocks lie here and there, and, at the margins of the plains, occur deep valleys and ravines, the humid soil of which is covered with arums, heliconias, llianas.

Forest & Frontiers 1867