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Etlingera solaris

Etlingera solaris
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0

Etlingera solaris is a rhizomatous ginger-family plant from Sumatra and western and central Java, grown mainly as a tropical ornamental. It needs warm, humid, shaded or lightly shaded conditions with consistently moist soil.

Family
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering in cooler, drier periods.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-rich potting mix or forest-floor type soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 13 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Sumatera to W. & C. Jawa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Etlingera solaris is a monocotyledonous plant species first described by Carl Ludwig von Blume, and given its current name by Rosemary Margaret Smith. Etlingera solaris 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 solaris 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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