Transport yourself to the tropics right in your own garden with the eye-catching lobster claw plant. Also known as Heliconia rostrata and false bird of paradise, this flashy warm-climate dweller ...

"We built upon the valuable time and resources that past researchers have spent going out into the field and counting plant populations." The genus Heliconia contains 187 species of tropical plants ...

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

"We built upon the valuable time and resources that past researchers have spent going out into the field and counting plant populations." Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers, which come ...

head of the museum’s plant conservation unit and co-author of the study. “We got about 50 percent of the genus as being threatened, which is quite alarming.” Heliconia plants are beloved for ...