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 Photo# 12946 Specimen# R3167 Costus 'Tico Tower' From Costa Rica, Puntarenas |
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PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Costus 'Tico Tower' FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : CONTINENT: Neotropical SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: Collected, named and introduced by Dave Skinner, found in southern Costa Rica. Published in the Heliconia Society Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2012. This plant was found on the floodplains of the Rio Rincon on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. It appears to have characters of C. lima except with green bract appendages and longer yellow tubular flowers. The plant grows quite tall, up to 4 meters, with thick hairs on all the vegetative parts. The ligule is short and truncate with a reddish margin. Bracts are red with green, triangular foliaceous appendages that are pendent on the inflorescence. Bracteole is 22 mm long, calyx is 15 mm, corolla and labellum are bright yellow, stamen is red at the apex. Cultivar Registry Photo at http://www.gingersrus.com/Registry/Costus_TicoTower.jpg GINGERSRUS CATALOG LISTING: 
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I found this plant growing in the flood plain of the Rio Rincon on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. It does not fit the description of any known species, but it clearly has some characters of Costus lima and was growing in a lima type habitat. I can only guess that it is a hybrid of C. lima with another species, possibly Costus villosissimus, based on the hairiness and the green appendaged bracts with yellow flowers. It grows quite tall but has a very long flowering period having been in flower all year in my greenhouse.