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Botanical details
- Family
- Costaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Costus
- Genus description
Costus are rhizomatous perennials with spirally arranged leaves and tubular, 3-petalled flowers usually in terminal clusters on leafy shoots and often with showy bracts
- Name status
Accepted
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