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Aframomum luteoalbum

Aframomum luteoalbum is a rhizomatous ginger-family plant native to East and Central Africa, from southwest South Sudan to northwest Tanzania. It is a rarely grown species, so care relies on general guidance for wild aframomums: give it warm, humid, partly shaded conditions and keep the rhizome lightly moist.

Family
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil lightly moist during the growing season and reduce watering when the plant goes dormant.
Soil
Rich, well-draining, humus-rich potting mix or loam.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. South Sudan to NW. Tanzania
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Aframomum luteoalbum is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann.

Where it grows

Aframomum luteoalbum is native from Southwest South Sudan to Northwest Tanzania.

Other Aframomum plants

Aframomum albiflorum · Aframomum alboviolaceum · Aframomum alpinum · Aframomum amaniense · Guinea Grains · Aframomum arundinaceum · Aframomum atewae · Aframomum aulacocarpos · Aframomum cereum · Aframomum chrysanthum · Aframomum citratum · Aframomum colosseum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aframomum luteoalbum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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