OTHER GINGER GENERA
Look at the list below and you will get an inkling of how many other gingers there are that are not in the garden trade. As I have studied gingers, this list has really grown. Many of these are not very cold hardy, the exception being the little northern ginger Roscoea, hardy to zone 5 and some Cautleyas. As gingers are becoming more and more popular, the following genera are beginning to be found in retail nurseries and mail order catalogs:
- Amomum - for its spicy fragrance and easy ground cover.
- Boesenbergia - another nice ground cover for the shade.
- Burbidgea - interesting flowers.
- Etlingera - for frost-free areas, some of the most beautiful flowers in nature.
- Monocostus - popular little shade plant.
- Siphonochilus - very showy flowers.
- Stahlianthus - used like small Curcumas
- Tapeinochilos - beautiful flowers for frost-free areas
