Curcuma roscoeana

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Curcuma roscoeana (also known as jewel of Burma,{{cite web|title=Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database - Sorting Curcuma names|url=http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Curcuma.html|accessdate=6 June 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609122912/http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Curcuma.html|archivedate=9 June 2010}}{{cite book | last=Llamas | first=Kirsten Albrecht | title=Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation | year=2003 | publisher=Timber Press | isbn=978-0-88192-585-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxW4Scq6kU8C&q=roscoeana | accessdate=6 June 2010 | page=367}} orange ginger, orange hidden ginger, pride of Burma or Burmese hidden lily) is a plant of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family.

It is native to Burma, India, Southeast Asia and Malaysia; its wild habitat is threatened.

Average height 2–3 feet.{{cite web|title=Ornamental Gingers as Flowering Potted Plants|url=http://www.lsuagcenter.com/NR/rdonlyres/ABEF9350-D68F-4129-BA78-A9310212FDE7/9090/OFAGinger.pdf|accessdate=6 June 2010|author1=Maria del Pilar Paz|author2=Jeff S. Kuehny|author3=Richard A. Criley|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718211352/http://www.lsuagcenter.com/NR/rdonlyres/ABEF9350-D68F-4129-BA78-A9310212FDE7/9090/OFAGinger.pdf|archivedate=18 July 2011}} Flowers cone-shaped, bright orange or yellow, 4-5 inches. Blooms summer, fall. Bracts peach-orange to dark read-orange. Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic, light green, with darker veins, up to 12 inches long.

It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for its beautiful flowers. It is one of the most popular curcumas.

Synonyms include: Curcuma kurzii King ex Baker; Curcuma coccinea Wall. ex Baker, nom. nud.; Hitchenia roscoeana Wall.; Hitcheniopsis roscoeana Wall.{{cite journal|title=Back to types! Towards stability of names in Indian Curcuma L. (Zingiberaceae)|journal=Taxon|date=February 2010|volume=59|issue=1|pages=269–282|doi=10.1002/tax.591025|url=http://ibot.sav.sk/karolx/PDF_files/curcuma_taxon2010.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224155006/http://ibot.sav.sk/karolx/PDF_files/curcuma_taxon2010.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-12-24|accessdate=6 June 2010|author1=Jana Leong-Škorničková|author2=Otakar Šída|author3=Karol Marhold}}