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'''''Roscoea''''' is a genus of [[perennial plant]]s of the family ''[[Zingiberaceae]]''. They are native to [[China]] and [[Himalayas]] and related to a [[ginger]] plant. The ''Roscoea'' flowers resemble an [[orchid]]. There are 18 species in this genus.<ref name="Botanica 801">"Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", p. 801 Könemann, 2004. ISBN 3-8331-1253-0</ref>
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Roscoea (named after Wm. Roscoe, 1753-1831). Zingiberaceae. Half-hardy perennial herbs often grown in the warmhouse, but also used for border planting.
 
Roscoea (named after Wm. Roscoe, 1753-1831). Zingiberaceae. Half-hardy perennial herbs often grown in the warmhouse, but also used for border planting.
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Roots thick, fleshy, and fascicled: lvs. lanceolate or oblong: infl. in terminal spikes; bracts persistent, 1-fld.; fls. purple, blue, or yellow; calyx long, tubular, slit down one side; corolla-tube slender, lateral segms. spreading, upper broad, cucullate, erect; lateral staminoides oblanceolate, petaloid, erect, lip large, cuneate, deflexed, 2-cleft or emarginate; ovary 3-celled: caps, cylindric or clavate.—About 15 species, Himalaya region and China. Monographed by Schumann in Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 20 (vol. IV:46). Roscoeas thrive in light turfy loam and are prop. by division. R. purpurea is the species best known in cultivation.
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Roots thick, fleshy, and fascicled: lvs. lanceolate or oblong: infl. in terminal spikes; bracts persistent, 1-fld.; fls. purple, blue, or yellow; calyx long, tubular, slit down one side; corolla-tube slender, lateral segms. spreading, upper broad, cucullate, erect; lateral staminoides oblanceolate, petaloid, erect, lip large, cuneate, deflexed, 2-cleft or emarginate; ovary 3-celled: caps, cylindric or clavate.—About 15 species, Himalaya region and China. Roscoeas thrive in light turfy loam and are prop. by division. R. purpurea is the species best known in cultivation.
 
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| name = ''Roscoea''
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
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| ordo = [[Zingiberales]]
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| familia = [[Zingiberaceae]]
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| genus = ''[[Roscoea]]''
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'''''Roscoea''''' is a genus of [[perennial plant]]s of the family ''[[Zingiberaceae]]''. They are native to [[China]] and [[Himalayas]] and related to a [[ginger]] plant. The ''Roscoea'' flowers resemble an [[orchid]]. There are 18 species in this genus.<ref name="Botanica 801">"Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", p. 801 Könemann, 2004. ISBN 3-8331-1253-0</ref>
      
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Roscoea ?Beesiana- this  is  Lyn=92s  image of  a plant  she obtained as = R cautleoides which  we think  may be the  hybrid  R Beesiana, said  to  have variable  violet  striping.
 
Roscoea ?Beesiana- this  is  Lyn=92s  image of  a plant  she obtained as = R cautleoides which  we think  may be the  hybrid  R Beesiana, said  to  have variable  violet  striping.
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==Some species==
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Some species:
 
* [[Roscoea cautleoides]]
 
* [[Roscoea cautleoides]]
 
* [[Roscoea humeana]]
 
* [[Roscoea humeana]]
 
* [[Roscoea purpurea]]
 
* [[Roscoea purpurea]]
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==References==
 
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
    
==External links==
 
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* [http://www.asianflora.com/Zingiberaceae/Roscoea-cautleoides.htm Pictures of ''Roscoea cautleoides'']
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* [http://planteliste.net/slides/roscoea_humeana.html Picture of ''Roscoea humeana'']
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* http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Roscoea
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