Etlingera elatior

Read about Etlingera elatior in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Amomum magnificum, Benth & Hook. f. A species of large dimensions, reaching, when planted out in a rich soil, up to a height of 20 ft. : rhizomes branching freely, stout, dark brown, green when young: lf.-st. erect, arching at top, terete: Lvs. distichous shortly petiolate, lanceolate or elliptic, 1-2 ft. long, acute, glabrous, upper side green, (red when young) Tower side suffused with reddish brown: peduncle stout, solitary, 2-5 ft. high; infl. a globose head with large bright scarlet and green bracts, outer bracts 3 in. long, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate; fls. numerous, densely crowded near the center of the head; sepals lanceolate, an inch long, primrose, tinted with red; petals lanceolate, slightly longer than the sepals, yellow, tinted with red; lip longer than the corolla-lobes, red, with a margin of yellow. Mauritius. B.M. 3192 (as Alpinia). The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.