J.J.M, Houston A. The first plant is a spiral ginger, so called because the foliage of so many in the genus Costus spiral around their reedlike stems. The red cones are beautiful in the garden and ...

Crepe Ginger is a great landscaping plant too with shining green leaves arranged on the stalk in a spiral. One or two crimped flowers protrude from the dazzling red, cone-shaped inflorescence!

Some plants grow pretty much unnoticed until someone finds something exciting about them, and such is the case for red bamboo ginger (Alpinia luteocarpa). Its secret is in its aromatic leaves and ...

The dwarf red jade vine (Camptosema grandiflora) is a spectacular flowering plant from Brazil ... you’ll want to add variegated spiral ginger to your garden or home. Costus arabicus ...

Plants in this group, such as butterfly ginger and spiral ginger, may be cut back to the ground if frozen in winter, much as you would cannas. Shell ginger is evergreen and blooms on the previous ...

The plant also has diuretic, antimicrobial, and cancer-preventing properties. Costus igneus, also known as Costus pictus, spiral flag, painted spiral ginger, step ladder, fiery costus, or insulin ...