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#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is the #turmeric Curcuma ferruginea from Assam, India, flowering today RBGE_Glass Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Edinburgh data.rbge.org.uk/living/20060521 after a long winter of dormancy. Spring is here!

A real pleasure to be back in Sarawak. Thank you for the warm welcome!

#gingerplantoftheweek is #etlingerafimbriobracteata from Borneo flowering now in a glasshouse Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/20051848. This species is easily recognised but the reniform anther crest (red in the photo) and also occurs in the Philippines.

#gingerplantoftheweek flowering today at the #royalbotanicgardenskew in the #princessofwalesconservatory is #etlingerahemisphaerica 2013-1466.

Congratulations to Nurainas and the team at Andalas University, West Sumatra, for the publication of their unique discovery!

#Zingiberales symposium organised with #JanaSkornickova and #vinitaGowda at #IBC2024 with great #zingiberaceae presentations by #eliskaZaveska #tomasFer #vinitaGowda #napasorn #hongFan and the #musaceae work by #trudeSchw presented by Pat Heslop-Harrison

Just unfolded, Titan Arum Edinburgh as gorgeous, mysterious and smelly as ever Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, accessible to the public the next two days.

A complete description of #GingerPlantOfTheWeek, Etlingera peekelii (#Zingiberaceae), is included in a recent Blumea paper: rbge.cc/3WMlnXU. This only occurs in the Bismarck Archipelago and the seeds are covered by a yellowish waxy aril not previously seen in the family.

Green cardamom, #Elettaria #cardamomum, #Zingiberaceae, is an economically important #spice plant. Our research (doi.org/10.1002/tax.13…) demonstrates that this has close wild relatives in #India and #SriLanka. These may have an important role for spice production in the future.

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is #Cyphostigma pulchellum endemic in #SriLanka recently typified in our TAXON paper (doi.org/10.1002/tax.13…). This unusual ginger has flowers where the appendage of the anther is larger and more showy than the lip. Pollinator? Photo: Sindoopa Seneviratne.

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is the genus #Srilankanthus endemic in #SriLanka recently described in our TAXON paper (doi.org/10.1002/tax.13…). The type was first described in 1861 as Elettaria nemorale. Only after Lakmini D. K. Marasinghe recollected it in 2013 did we get this insight.

#gingerplantoftheweek is #Boesenbergia ganaensis just fresh from the press in #phytokeys: doi.org/10.3897/phytok… Congratulations to Dr Lam Nyee Fan (UMS) for describing in this paper yet another three new species of this #gingergenus (#Zingiberaceae) endemic in Sabah, Borneo.

#gingerplantoftheweek is #etlingera polycarpa endemic in Sulawesi now having many fruits in a glasshouse Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/20021894 The species was collected at Tomohon by the Sarasins in 1894, described by Schumann in 1899 and illustrated in 1904 (shown).

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is Hedychium wardii from NE India fruiting now in Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh data.rbge.org.uk/living/20042039

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#GingerPlantOfTheWeek flowering today Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, is #Alpiniazerumbet, a typical ‘shell ginger’ representing a branch of ginger evolution in great need of taxonomic revision! This plant data.rbge.org.uk/living/19751777 is of unknown origin; the species is widely cultivated.

#gingerplantoftheweek is #Tapeinochilos pubescens (Costaceae) from Papua New Guinea flowering now Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/20171077. This is probably the first time this species, which only occurs in New Guinea, has been cultivated and produced flowers in Europe.

Thank you to Stephen Lyus (Stephen Lyus), the Liverpool Botanical Trust, and the University of Liverpool John Moores for organising a great spicey ginger seminar and for the warm welcome and positive feedback from the audience in Croxteth Hall!

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is Alpinia arachniformis that we collected in New Ireland during two expeditions in 2013 and 2013 collaborating with PNG Forest Research Institute and local communities. Published 17 Apr 2025 in Webbia: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/webb…

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is #Etlingera minor flowering today in a glasshouse @rbgedinburgh #Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/20040692 This species is endemic in the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia, where I it collected it in 2004.