Finger ginger
This murderously beautiful pair of sprouts belongs to Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant in the ginger family known for its long finger-like rhizomes, which I planted earlier. Unlike other gingers, which are rather grassy-looking, fingerroot has these big, broad leaves.
I had two separate rhizomes potted up for many months with no sign of movement and was worried they wouldn't sprout, but I guess they were just waiting for the summer to set in. Once the weather warmed up, I noticed a few little green knobs, which later turned into devilish little red horns, before turning green again and shooting up into leaves.
B. rotunda is grown in places such as Thailand and Indonesia for culinary and ethnomedical purposes. Blooms are apparently pink and orchid-like, but with foliage like that, I can forgive it.
