Axel Dalberg Poulsen
axelginger.bsky.social
Axel Dalberg Poulsen
@axelginger.bsky.social
A Danish tropical forest botanist currently focusing on Zingiberales
at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🫚🫚🫚
Zingiber not Etlingera
December 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Cheilocostus speciosus
Etlingera pyramidosphaera
December 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is the neotropical #Costus comosus var. bakeri (#Costaceae; leaves arranged in a ‘spiral staircase’) whereas #Etlingera belongs to the family #Zingiberaceae where the leaves typically are distichous.
https://data.rbge.org.uk/living/1990206…
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Where did you take this photograph?
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Etlingera megalocheilos
Do you agree that ‘flame ginger’ is a good English name for these neat-ground flowering species of Etlingera?
December 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
E. corneri named in honour of British botanist, Edred J. H. Corner (1906–1996).
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM