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Hornstedtia scyphifera
In Singapore: Great Spindle Ginger, Walking Ginger, 杯状大豆蔻 (Native to Singapore, Vulnerable)
Hornstedtia scyphifera, known as walking ginger, is a tropical rhizomatous ginger from Southeast Asia that spreads horizontally, sending down prop roots as it grows. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions similar to its rainforest home.
Hornstedtia scyphifera, commonly called walking ginger, is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae. It is native to the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java. Its growth form is like a tiny banyan, growing horizontally as it grows prop roots approximately 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long down to the ground as the plant lengthens.
Three varieties are accepted:
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hornstedtia scyphifera 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.
