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3 unusual facts about Roscoea auriculata


Roscoea × beesiana

Roscoea × beesiana is considered to be a hybrid between R. auriculata and R. cautleyoides which occurred in cultivation.

Roscoea purpurea

Jill Cowley notes that "for many years" a different species, R. auriculata, was grown in gardens under the name R.

Roscoea tumjensis

The leaf blades have auriculate (ear-shaped) bases like those of R.auriculata, but the latter has white lateral staminodes with a vein which is not central, whereas R. tumjensis has flowers all of the same colour and lateral staminodes with a central vein.



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