Parrot's flower
Heliconia psittacorum L.f.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Heliconiaceae
Also called Parrot's Beak, Parakeet Flower, Parrot's Flower, Parrot's Plantain, False Bird-of-Paradise
Formerly Bihai cannoidea, Bihai humilis, Bihai psittacorum, Bihai sylvestris, and 11 more
When it flowers
Flowers November to September in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Panama to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS Extension and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 99 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from Wikipedia and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia red, yellow; Chicago Botanic Garden red, white
- Coldest it survives
- 1.7 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Avecilla
- Portuguese
- Helicônia-papagaio, Paquevira
- French
- Bec de Perroquet
- German
- Papageien-Hummerschere
- Czech
- bihaja papouščí
- Japanese
- ヒメゴクラクチョウカ
- Chinese (China)
- 百合蝎尾蕉
- Chinese
- 百合蝎尾蕉, 豔紅赫蕉
- Russian
- Геликония попугайная
- Polish
- helikonia papuzia
- Lithuanian
- Papūginis bangminys
- Thai
- ธรรมรักษา
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Chicago Botanic Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Heliconia psittacorum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.