6/2/2023 0 Comments Ginger red button plantSix months later, we started to see the first signs of flowering. None were in bloom, but it was only matter of patience and fortnightly monitoring before we were able to observe the flowers. We tried to return to the location where they were found, but with no GPS reading, it took more than a year to finally find the plant again, which turned up in more than one location. ![]() They did not look like anything I had seen before in Singapore, although the leaves reminded me of several known ginger species from Malaysia. On an ordinary day in 2012, my NParks colleague William Ng came out of the forest in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve with two small ginger plants. There is nothing to suggest that Singapore's gingers are not completely represented. ![]() ![]() Today, less than 3% of Singapore is still covered by primary forest and all specimens deposited in our herbarium are identified. A rare ginger previously unknown to science was discovered in our forests just recently.Įver since I joined the Singapore Botanic Gardens in 2006, I have always wondered if there was any possibility of a still-undescribed species hidden somewhere in Singapore, despite chances of such a discovery being close to zero.
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