Family Name: Costaceae
Common Name: Scarlet Spiral Flag
                              Red Cane

Description:
The plant native to Columbia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua. The tubular, orange to red-orange flowers emerge one at a time from between shinny, red tightly overlapping floral bracts on round-tipped, egg-shaped to cylindrical inflorescences at the stem tips. The individual flowers remain almost closed and have a barely revealed yellow labellum. The leaves are glossy, dark green, hairless, spirally arranged, drooping and elliptic to egg-shaped. The cane-like stems from underground rhizomes and are erect to learning.