Zingiberales: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	ginger order • banana order

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Close-up of a turmeric (Curcuma longa) plant flower with white petals and small yellow accents, surrounded by green stems and leaves.

Cluster of unripe green bananas (Musa acuminata Colla) growing on a banana plant with large green leaves in the background.

bird-of-paradise flower

traveler's tree

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Cannaceae Zingiberaceae Marantaceae Strelitziaceae Musaceae Ensete Goeppertia Hornstedtia Strelitzia Musa Poales Arecales Commelinales

Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap

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trees deciduous and coniferous. trees grow on a bank of a forest in springtime in Alberta, British Columbia, Canada. logging, forestry, wood, lumber, wilderness

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