Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Plants
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Elisabeth Chan. Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Plants
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HANDY POCKET GUIDE TO
Tropical
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Alpinia purpurata (on bottom right) is a zingiber. It is a popular landscape ginger, the pink form of which is called 'Eileen Mcdonald'. The plant propagates itself by producing plantlets from the flowering bracts.
Nicolaia elatior (on opposite top left) belongs to the Zingeberaceae. Called the torch ginger, its leafstalks are tall, about 10 to 15 m and the 'torch' itself is about 1 to 2 m. Torches, produced singly from the ground on a long stalk, are composed of big flower heads of waxy overlapping bracts with small flowers. In Southeast Asia they are visited by small sunbirds, as each row of flowers opens in turn. The bud is used sparingly as a flavoring for food.
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