It’s not just another tour based on tropical flowers where you see many different species in a nice garden, a guide tells you a few scientific names and that’s it, no, this is a naturalist guide explaining why Bird-of-Paradise is no longer a Heliconia. Describing in a easy and simple way the historical evolution of some of the plants in the Zingiberal order, which includes: Heliconias, Bananas, Bird-of-Paradise and Prayer Plant, and why they developed so beautifully colored bracts that look like flowers but that technically they are not.

Want an extra bonus? We will get into the Tropical Rain Forest to learn even more about ethno botany (science that explores the cultural knowledge among plants) and therefore, we will be able to use at least one of the species of the forest to make something useful.

So if deep knowledge in botany and quality in the experience is what you are looking for, then you can’t miss this excursion at Port Limon based on Tropical Gardening Flowers of the Rain Forest.

Some of the species you may be able to see are:

* Heliconia wagneriana
* Heliconia psitacorum
* Heliconia marie
* Heliconia imbricata
* Heliconia pogonantha
* Heliconia latispatha
* Calathea lutea
* Musa textilis
* Musa velutina
* Musa paradisiaca
* Alpinia purpurata
* Etilangera eliator