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Roscoea ngainoi

Roscoea ngainoi
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Roscoea ngainoi is a small tuberous perennial from the hills of Manipur, India, with deep purple flowers held within its leaves. It grows from a short rhizome and tuberous roots, and like other Roscoea it is a cool-climate, mountain-adapted ginger relative.

Family
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and keep drier while dormant.
Soil
Humus-rich, free-draining loam or leaf mould mix.
Temperature
Cool temperate conditions; tolerates frost when dormant.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Assam (Manipur)
Climate
temperate

About

Roscoea ngainoi is a perennial herbaceous plant occurring in the Ukhrul district of Manipur state, India. Most members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), to which it belongs, are tropical, but like other species of Roscoea, R. ngainoi grows in much colder mountainous regions.

Other Roscoea plants

Roscoea alpina · Roscoea auriculata · Roscoea australis · Roscoea bhutanica · Roscoea brandisii · Roscoea cangshanensis · Roscoea capitata · Roscoea cautleoides · Roscoea debilis · Roscoea forrestii · Roscoea ganeshensis · Roscoea humeana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Roscoea ngainoi 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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