Crepe Ginger (Cheilocostus speciosus)
Description:
This flower was snapped at the Singapore Zoo.According to Jana Leong-Skornickova & Dina Gallick, the authors of The Ginger Garden, "Crepe Ginger is perhaps the most common spiral ginger naturalised throughout the tropics...Its rhizomes are used in Asia as a traditional medicine to treat intestinal worm infections and to reduce fever."
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