🎀 What is our most favorite Ginger plant? African Princess!

• 👸 The most beautiful Ginger flower, in our opinion, is Costus fissiligulatus - African Princess, or Cameroon Costus - an amazing flowering Ginger from Gabon in West Africa.
• 👸 Dazzling pink trumpet flower with a yellow throat. It is very floriferous with an inflorescence of numerous flower buds.
• 👸 Low-growing plant only 3-4 ft that stands very erect.
• 👸 Easy grower with similar growing requirements to other gingers.

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📚 Gingers from previous posts:

Most interesting edible gingers
5 most spectacular Ginger species
How to French Kiss the Red Button Ginger

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💋 If RED is your favorite flower color, this is your plant!

• 👄 Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise - is one of the most spectacular ground orchids.
• 👄 The Orange Reed Ground Orchid symbolizes warmth and energy, much like a sunrise, bringing a splash of color and life wherever it grows.

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🔥 What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?

• 🏀 One of the most unusual looking plants in or shade garden collection is Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo.
• 🏀 It is a spectacular tropical perennial that can be grown as a houseplant or in a greenhouse.
• 🏀 From summer to late fall it is covered with showy orange-red flowers, may bloom sporadically several times a year.
• 🏀 Forms a dense mountain of flowers and foliage.
• 🏀 The plant forms tubers at the base of the stem. By the end of fall the leaves may die back, the plant goes dormant till spring. Then it re-sprouts in Spring again.
• 🏀 Reduce water to minimum during dormancy period.

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Is it a plant or an animal? It's a Tapeworm Ribbonbush!

• Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern, Tapeworm Ribbonbush is Bizarreness!
• The Ribbon Bush is a terrific, leaf-less plant from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific with long, flattened stems resembling tapeworms - hence its nickname "Tapeworm Plant".
• It's hard to capture the unusual beauty of this plant in pictures.
• This is an awesome, offbeat plant that will get people asking: "What the heck is that??".
• This plant needs very little care, makes a great houseplant, and is very hard to find.

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🐾 How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???

🔘 Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant: this plant is a real Nature's Wonder! The fun part is the "mattress" where the seed "buttons" grow.

🚀 The plant has strange looking receptacles. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.

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