Like the costus, the red ginger plant also has a special way of renewal through its flower head. I’ve enough off-shoots to start another pot.
Chances of survival higher than if you try to root a cutting (without the off-shoots into the potting soil). The same off-shoots do grow even if you didnt dead-head the stem. Cut below the circle, and pot in garden soil.
Two offshoots growing from a costus woodsonii cut (see roots forming from circle). When one costus woodsonii (also known as red button ginger or scarlet spiral flag) head became brown, I cut it off. As an amateur gardener, propagating plants, seeing new growth has kept me dirty, digging, repotting and cutting. Spiked Spiralflag ( Costus spicatus) is commonly misidentified as this plant, but Spiked Spiralflag has larger flowers with a much larger, ruffled, yellow labellum, red-green floral bracts, and leaves with hair along the upper midrib.The way nature renews itself, never stops amazing it. The showy inflorescences make long lasting cut flowers in tropical flower arrangements. The plants spread by rhizomes, plantlets, or stem cuttings. Here in Hawaii, Indian Head Ginger grows in sunny to shady gardens with moist soil. The cane-like stems emerge from underground rhizomes and are erect to leaning.
The leaves are glossy, dark green, hairless, spirally arranged, drooping, and elliptic to egg-shaped. Young plantlets emerge from the base of the old inflorescences and can take root if they touch the ground. The individual flowers remain almost closed and have a barely revealed yellow labellum (lower lip petal). The more conspicuous floral bracts are dark red.ĭescription: The tubular, orange to red-orange flowers emerge one at a time from between shiny, red, tightly overlapping floral bracts on round-tipped, egg-shaped to cylindrical inflorescences at the stem tips. This mostly cultivated but also locally naturalized ornamental garden plant is native to Central and South America.įlower Color: Reddish orange and yellow. Hawaii Native Status: Introduced, Cultivated. Common Names: Indian Head Ginger, Indianhead Ginger, Red Cane, Scarlet Spiral Flag
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