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 rubromarginata

Etlingera rubromarginata is a rhizomatous ginger-family plant from Borneo, grown as a tropical ornamental in humid conditions. It needs warmth, high humidity and consistently moist, well-drained soil.

Family
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged; water more in the growing season.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, well-draining mix.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Etlingera rubromarginata is a monocotyledonous plant species described by Axel Dalberg Poulsen and John Donald Mood. Etlingera rubromarginata 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 rubromarginata 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

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

Your photo
Starting camera…