Characteristics
A ginger family herb. It grows 5 m tall. It has an aroma. The rhizomes are creeping and 1 m long. The false stems are grouped closely together. The leaf stalks are 3-4 cm long. The leaves are sword shaped and taper to a short tip. The leaves have purple-red blotches. The flowering shoots are without leaves and come from the base. They are 50 cm long. The flower bracts are shiny, red and waxy. The flowers are tube shaped and red. The fruit is a round capsule 2 cm across. There are many seeds.
| Life form |
perennial
|
| Growth form |
herb
|
| Growth support |
free-standing
|
| Foliage retention |
-
|
| Sexuality |
hermaphrodite
|
| Pollination |
-
|
| Spread |
-
|
| Mature width (meter) |
-
|
| Mature height (meter) |
5.0
|
| Root system |
rhizome
|
| Rooting depth (meter) |
-
|
| Root diameter (meter) |
-
|
| Flower color |
-
|
| Blooming months |
-
|
| Fruit color |
-
|
| Fruiting months |
-
|
| Nitrogen fixer |
-
|
| Photosynthetic pathway |
-
|
Environment
It is a tropical plant. It grows in Kalimantan. It grows in primary and secondary forests and marshy or mixed dipterocarp forest up to 1,200 m above sea level.
| Light |
-
|
| Soil humidity |
-
|
| Soil texture |
-
|
| Soil acidity |
-
|
| Soil nutriment |
-
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| Hardiness (USDA) |
-
|
Usage
| Uses |
-
|
| Edible
|
-
|
| Therapeutic use
|
-
|
| Human toxicity |
-
|
| Animal toxicity |
-
|
Cultivation
Plants can be grown from seeds or by division of the rhizome.
| Mode |
seedlings
|
| Germination duration (days) |
-
|
| Germination temperacture (C°) |
-
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| Germination luminosity |
-
|
| Germination treatment |
-
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| Minimum temperature (C°) |
-
|
| Optimum temperature (C°) |
-
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| Size |
-
|
| Vigor |
-
|
| Productivity |
-
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