Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Etlingera muluensis

Etlingera muluensis is a tropical ginger-family plant from the Zingiberaceae, native to the rainforests of Borneo, described by Rosemary Margaret Smith. It is a wild species of the torch ginger genus and is grown mainly by specialist collectors in warm, humid conditions.

Family
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering slightly in cooler months.
Soil
Rich, free-draining, humus-heavy mix such as peat or bark with added leaf mould.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Moderate

About

Etlingera muluensis is a monocotyledonous plant species described by Rosemary Margaret Smith. Etlingera muluensis is part of the genus Etlingera and the family Zingiberaceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.

Other Etlingera plants

Etlingera albolutea · Etlingera amomoides · Etlingera angustifolia · Etlingera apus-hang · Etlingera araneosa · Etlingera aurantia · Etlingera australasica · Etlingera baculutea · Etlingera balikpapanensis · Etlingera baramensis · Etlingera barioensis · Etlingera belalongensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Etlingera muluensis 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…