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Indian head ginger
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Indian head ginger

Costus scaber

Costus scaber is a species of plant in the Costaceae family. Its native range is Mexico to Tropical America.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 283424.