Help with identification
Tim Chapman (Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:19:17 PDT)

The pictured plant is Kaempferia rotunda. There are no patterned foliage Siphochilus. Most Siphonochilus have much wider leaves the S aethiopicus and often have blooming spikes. Both K rotunda and S aethiopicus bloom at ground level but K rotunda blooms before the foliage appears, S aethiopicus later in summer.

Tim Chapman

On Nov 5, 2011, at 6:25 AM, Antigoni Rentzeperis <antigre10@yahoo.gr> wrote:

Hello all,

this came as a rhizome of Siphonochilus aethiopicus, but the leaf is wrong, from what I see in the photo in the Wiki and on the Inet.

can someone tell me what it might be ? Is it a Kaempferia ?

picture of the rhizome
http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb341/…

leaf
http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb341/…

http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb341/…

thank you,

Antigoni

Gythio
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