Jungle Dancer. Dancing Girl Ginger, Globba schomburgkii, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From The Botanical Magazine of 1876 we learn that some roots of this striking Globba, Jungle Ginger, were sent to the famous botanical gardens at Kew in 1864. Hooker calls it Yellow Dancing Ginger - without the 'Girl', which has since been added to the English. The Latin specific is for Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865), a highly versatile English public servant and naturalist originally from Prussia who served as Consul in Siam (now Thailand) from 1876-1864. It was he who sent those bulbs to Kew. The generic 'Globba' is New Latin for the Ambonese-Malay name for this plant: Galoba.
I put up another Dancing Globba (maratina) in this stream in 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/6776137215/in/photolis.... But the present one is certainly more striking!
Jungle Dancer. Dancing Girl Ginger, Globba schomburgkii, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From The Botanical Magazine of 1876 we learn that some roots of this striking Globba, Jungle Ginger, were sent to the famous botanical gardens at Kew in 1864. Hooker calls it Yellow Dancing Ginger - without the 'Girl', which has since been added to the English. The Latin specific is for Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865), a highly versatile English public servant and naturalist originally from Prussia who served as Consul in Siam (now Thailand) from 1876-1864. It was he who sent those bulbs to Kew. The generic 'Globba' is New Latin for the Ambonese-Malay name for this plant: Galoba.
I put up another Dancing Globba (maratina) in this stream in 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/6776137215/in/photolis.... But the present one is certainly more striking!