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title: "Can anyone help ID this plant. Planta doesn’t know it. TIA 🌺"
description: "Can anyone help ID this plant. Planta doesn’t know it. TIA 🌺"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/ItDWH6LhSrur11xZ3inTKw/64faa3072cb54a95941b27e3"
community: "The Blooming Brigade"
author: "Stargzrlily"
published: "2023-09-08T04:28:55.507Z"
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# Can anyone help ID this plant. Planta doesn’t know it. TIA 🌺

_Posted by Stargzrlily on 2023-09-08_

Can anyone help ID this plant. Planta doesn’t know it. TIA 🌺

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## 5 comments

### Sunny commented on 2023-09-08

It’s Curcuma (turmeric). Specifically, it’s Red Turmeric based on the color of the flowers. There are the standard yellow and the hard to find blue varieties, as well. They are easy to grow. They need high humidity, bright indirect light and good draining soil plus tropical heat. The plant does back and goes dormant at the end of the growing season. That’s the time to harvest the rhizomes, dry them and grind to make turmeric powder.

Your plant may need watering. Leave’s should stand straight like canna lilies.

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/wefqOljjhEOiS9LRzOB1-QhxkVJiB4A5DGumXhnNrhs/64b0b37059504d208f00c659da4abcc4.webp?size=large)

#### Sunny replied on 2023-09-08

It’s Curcumin. Pardon my typos.😁

#### Stargzrlily replied on 2023-09-08

Thank you! When I transplanted it this morning there was a tag buried calling it a Irange Torch Ginger. Make sense?

#### Sunny replied on 2023-09-08

No. It doesn’t make sense. Mislabeled. Red torch ginger is in the picture. Leaf stalks can easily get to 10 feet. Flowers look like the Olympic torch.

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### Sunny commented on 2023-09-08

Red Ginger is another type of ginger. Flowers grow on top of the leaf stalk compared to the turmeric flower that has its own stalk separate from the leaves. I’ve grown all three plants described above.

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