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I found it in a house garden of Khatima, Uttarakhand, India.
Also knwon as Spiral Ginger. Tall flowering plant. Flowers large, and attract ...
The daily "morning walk" people grow this plant.
These flowers were photographed in an open sunny area on Tobago.
The showy flowers emerge from between dark red to reddish purple bracts on ...
I have seen this species everywhere in Costa Rica. We use this as a hedge line ...
A pair of dark orange beetles that feed on leaf. They have 4 dark spots on ...
name, the crepe ginger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheilocostus_
Broad flat leaves (please ignore the leaflets on the left: those belong to ...
This Variegated Spiral Ginger has great reddish spiral stems with sharply ...
The single flower of a vertical stem growing on the edge of a rainforest cliff. ...
The plant is tall almost 7-8 ft. The flowers grow at the terminal end...there ...
Costus are easily distinguished from other ...