#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is #Costusspectabilis an #African #Costaceae flowering today in a glasshouse @rbgedinburgh #19881617 collected in Malawi in 1979. This species occurs in woodland savannas and rocky outcrops in 30 African countries from Egypt to Zimbabwe and Senegal to Tanzania.

Rare turquoise gem #ginger #plant species described in @phytokeys.pensoft.net See: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.272.171221 Long-term collaboration between @thebotanics.bsky.social and Indonesian botanical institutions resulted in the discovery of #Hellwigia opalina only found in #Sulawesi, Indonesia.

#gingerplantoftheweek is #marantaceae #Calathea (currently placed in #Goeppertia but is it correct?) inocephala that has a white, oil-rich elaiosome below the bluish seeds facilitating ant dispersal. #neotropicalplants

#gingerplantoftheweek is #Etlingera hemisphaerica #etlingerahemisphaerica described by Carl Ludwig von Blume in 1827 and native in the #FloraOfJava. This particular plant was flowering in the campus of University of Indonesia, Fakultas MIPA, Java.