Using Catalogues to identify plants
Well, I never! I opened up one of the latest gardening catalogues to discover that my beehive gingers were displayed in all their glory but with different names to what I had been calling them - ooops! sorry! The one I was calling the shampoo ginger is in fact called Zingiber cocoa delight (Zingiber otensii) and the one I called beehive is actually Zingiber yellow (Zingiber spectabile). Closer, and a deep look into the pockets They dont show the infloresence of what they call shampoo ginger, but it has a variegated leaf. I think zingiber is just the latin name for ginger... There is another plant that I bought at the market, that totally dissapears during the winter. (I thought I had lost it!) It surfaces every wet season and I now discover that it is called Peacock ginger (Kaempferia pulchra) It was a bit drier this weekend and I was able to be outside without being attacked by too many mozzies. They seem to get very agressive jus...