Pine Cone Mystery Orchid

Captured this little beauty at Kew Gardens last week but don’t know its name and my plant app can’t identify it. Does any body know its name?

[Mags]

Whatever it is, it's beautiful!

[Julie Ryan]

It's beautiful

[gloria jones]

Beautiful!

[Peter Dulis]

lovely

[Danette Thompson]

Could it be a type of ginger?

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Ice Cream Cone Orchid?

[Kathy A]

It's amazing. My phone says its a costus barbarous or spiral ginger

[Diana]

What a wonderful find and capture! I am sure it will be identified correctly.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

sure looks like a type of ginger

[Boxplayer]

Beautiful.

[moni kozi]

Whoa! I've never seen such a flower!

[Beryl Lloyd]

Beautifully captured!

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful

[Pam]

What an unusual find! It is beautiful!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful capture.

[Susan Wakely]

My plant finder calls it a Costus from the Costaceae family.

[Renee Salamon]

@wakelys interesting - except it was in the Orchid House in Kew

[Carole Sandford]

An unusual beauty!

[bkb in the city]

Beautiful

[Kathy]

That is a curious plant and flower.