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 Photo# 13233 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13234 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13235 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13236 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13237 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13238 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13239 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13240 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13241 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13299 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13300 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13301 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13302 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13303 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13304 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
 Photo# 13305 Accession# R2562 Cheilocostus/Hellenia globosus 'Peach Cobbler' |
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PLANT FAMILY: Costaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Cheilocostus globosus 'Peach Cobbler' FORMAL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : CONTINENT: Asian SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: This is a cultivar name I have given to this plant to distinguish it from the other form of C. globosus in my collections. Additional information on the species Cheilocostus globosus can be found at PID3432. Cultivar Description: C. globosus form with unusual leaves and yellow flowers with red markings in the throat of the labellum. New leaves are peach colored turning green with maturity and having a distinctive rugose (wrinkled) texture. Leaves are glabrous on both surfaces. Normally flowers basally but this cultivar sometimes makes a terminal inflorescence. Bracts, bracteoles and calyx are densely hairy and green with only a blush of red near the margins. Flowers are globular in shape, labellum is yellow with distinctive red markings in the throat. Cultivar Registry Photo at http://www.gingersrus.com/Registry/Cheilocostus_PeachCobbler.jpg GINGERSRUS CATALOG LISTING: One other really cool thing about this plant is the foliage. The new forming leaves are a peachy pink color and are ornamental in their own right. I am calling this globosus form 'Peach Cobbler' to distinguish it from the others. As the leaves mature they turn a medium green color and have a ruffled texture,large and tropical looking, hanging down from the spiraling stems.I have tested this outdoors over winter in the past and it has come back okay, but I would still consider it marginally hardy in areas north of USDA zone 9B. It is a medium height ginger, growing to about 4-5 feet tall, so it is possible to grow it in a pot and it has bloomed well for me in a pot.
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Cheilocostus globosus is one of the half dozen or so Costus species that comes from Asia - recently renamed (along with Costus speciosus and Costus lacerus) into a new genus - Cheilocostus. This group of Cheilocostus has not been extensively studied and classified by taxonomists and are currently classified into a "Cheilocostus globosus complex". I believe the one I am listing here was previously called Costus tonkinensis. All the ones in this group are basal bloomers, but I think this is one of the showiest of them all, with its bright yellow-orange corolla and yellow labellum with the deep red center.