In article , Gene Newcomb
writes
This picture looks very much like that in the American Hort. Soc.
Encyclopedia of Garden Plants which is listed as Heliconia aurantiaca
from Central America. Sorry I can't do a scan of it. 'Auriantiaca' means
yellow or golden, so it would fit with the common name on the picture
you saw.

I'd translate 'auriantiaca' as orange; yellow/gold would be 'flava',
'lutea' or 'aurea'.

http://home.no.net/arsenic/latin.html
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Stewart Robert Hinsley