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Heliconia rauliniana
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Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Heliconia rauliniana
This is one of the giants of the genus, throwing banana-like pseudostems four metres and more, with pendent inflorescences over a metre long hanging beneath the leaves. Heliconia rauliniana carries broad red bracts edged in green and yellow, and because the flower hangs it needs to be planted where you walk beneath or beside it rather than look down on it. It is a wet tropics plant and behaves like one.
Why Heliconia rauliniana
Pendent Inflorescence: Flower heads hang 1.2m or more, one of the longest of any heliconia in cultivation.
Scale: Pseudostems reach well above head height, giving tropical mass rather than a border plant.
Clumping Habit: It expands steadily from the base into a solid stand instead of running unpredictably.
Fast Establishment: In warm wet conditions it reaches flowering size quickly.
Cut Flower: The huge hanging heads are dramatic indoors and last well once cut.
Ideal Applications
Tropical Understorey: Planted beneath palms and rainforest trees where light is filtered.
Poolside Backdrop: A tall lush wall of foliage behind a pool or entertaining area in the tropics.
Screening Clump: Used as a fast growing living screen along a fence in frost free districts.
Cut Flower Production: Grown in rows for the florist trade in northern Australia.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m
Best Planting Season: The start of the wet season, or any warm month in frost free districts
Soil & Drainage: Deep, rich, constantly moist but free draining soil high in organic matter. High humidity and reliable water are both required.
Establishment Care: Water generously and feed regularly through the warm months, since heavy feeding is what produces full sized flowering stems. Mulch thickly, provide wind shelter so the leaves do not shred, and cut spent stems to ground level.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m
Width: 2 to 3m per clump, spreading steadily
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Part shade to filtered sun
Native to: Central America, from Nicaragua through to Panama
Flower Colour: Red bracts margined with green and yellow
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







