Friday, January 22, 2016

Spiral Ginger (Costus afer)

An introduced large herb native to West Africa. Cultivated as an ornamental and probably also naturalized in some wet zone places*.

* Naturalized plants observed at roadsides of Athweltota and along the Nambapana Ela stream close to the Madakada monastery of Ingiriya.

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