Costaceae FAMILY
Costus spectabilis
Costus spectabilis
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitPerennial
Growth—
Not known
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Costus+spectabilis>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]Flora of West Tropical Africa — http://plants.jstor.org/search?st=2025 ↩︎An online flora, not yet complet (2012). Very comprehensive as regards to species covered, but the information on each species is often rather terse.
- [2]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
- [3]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.