The History and Cultivation of Etlingera – The Torch Gingers – at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

The ginger family, Zingiberaceae, is a pan-tropical family comprising 51 genera and c. 1,200 species predominantly found in Asia and the Pacific regions. The collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has been actively researched since the 1950s (Newman, 2000) and taxonomists from a va...

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Main Author: Helen Yeats
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2013-10-01
Series:Sibbaldia
Online Access:https://journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/article/view/52