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 Photo# 9967 taken 27 October, 2001 by Dave Skinner at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, OH - Alpinia luteocarpa |
 Photo# 9966 taken 10 April, 2002 by Dave Skinner at Smithsonian Research Greenshouse, Washington, DC - Alpinia luteocarpa |
 Photo# 12791 taken 18 October, 2006 by Dave Skinner at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kauai, Hawaii - Alpinia luteocarpa |
 Photo# 12792 taken 18 October, 2006 by Dave Skinner at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kauai, Hawaii - Alpinia luteocarpa |
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PLANT FAMILY: Zingiberaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Alpinia luteocarpa TYPE PLANT: perennial - HEIGHT: 2-3 ft (inches unless otherwise noted) - HABIT: - USES: BLOOMING: Season- Colors- Fragrance-no Profusion-flowers rare USDA ZONES: 10 to HEAT TOLERANCE:- SOIL: Moisture- Fertility- pH- COMMON NAMES: red bamboo ginger, SYNONYMS: Alpinia aureocarpa, BOTANICAL NOTES: TAXONOMY NOTES BY BRIAN MIDDLEDITCH - Alpinia luteocarpa Elmer: Listed on Dutch Herbaria Database New York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Type Catalog, at http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/Zingiberaceae.html Name: Alpinia luteocarpa Elmer (Isotype) Image: Available at http://image.nybg.org/herbim/0610/v-061-00320191big.jpg Location: Philippines. Laguna. Los Baños. Mt. Maquiling. Island of Luzon. Collector: A. D. E. Elmer 17926 - Jun-Jul 1917 Description: Sterile. Habitat: Publication: Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 10: 3803. 1939. Verified: J. C. Regalado, Jr. 1989. Other: NY Specimen ID: 320191 Ex Herbarium: E. G. Britton HORTICULTURAL NOTES: Le Jardin Ombragé - this one seems to be difficult to grow. I have tried two times, as noted below. I have been told this plant is sometimes found in supermarkets in their houseplants section. B & T WORLD SEEDS - listed in their catalog FINE GARDENING, July-Aug 1998 issue, article by Derek Burch, includes picture of A. luteocarpa. "Red bamboo ginger is one of the common names given to the 2 ft tall tight clumps of slender erect stems of this ginger grown for its foliage. The deep burgundy undersides of the leaves contrast nicely with the gray-green upper surfaces which are shown off by its upright growing habit. THE TROPICAL LOOK - Native to Thailand, not root hardy outside zone 10, clumping species, 4-5 ft tall, many thin stems, olive green leaves with reddish purple underneath, sometimes called the Bamboo Ginger. (In an e-mail on the Tropicals forum on Garden Web, Bob Riffle said the following: "The ginger in question is Alpinia luteocarpa, one of the most tender (to cold) of the genus: 32'F. can kill it outright. Tim Chapman, Ornamental Gingers - has been mass produced in tissue culture and used as a house plant, rarely blooms, but cream colored flowers, 3 ft, shade, zone 10 BOTANICAL GARDENS: (Gingers Only - Listing of locations where this plant can be seen.) Calgary Zoo & Botanical Gardens, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Coral Gables (Miami), Florida, USA New York Botanical Garden, Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Wertheim Plant Conservatory, Florida International, Miami, Florida, USA |
