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Curcuma australasica

Zingerberaceae: Cape York ginger. Native tumeric. Understorey herb on edges of riparian areas or in riparian areas of wet sclerophyll, woodland and monsoonal forests on Cape York. The flowers are not the obvious pink areas. The flowers are actually small and yellow and mature in the pink bracts which fade to green and reduce in size with age.

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Uploaded on January 7, 2011
Taken on January 5, 2011