Will ginger Mioga "Dancing Crane" root in water?

I've rooted spiral gingers with no problem, and I'm hoping that Mioga "Dancing Crane" will also root since it has a proper stem rather than just pseudostems (?) formed of layers of leaf petioles.

I don't even know what to compare Mioga to. Can anyone give a genus and species for it?

Thanks.

Zingiber mioga 'Dancing Crane'

they're gorgeous, and i'd assume you could root them in water.

http://www.paghat.com/japaneseginger.html

maybe not... but it's a very interesting plant, if you ever have any extra i'd love some :)

I put some stems in a vase with flowers, and, though the edge of some leaves eventually went brown, they were doing pretty well after the flowers were gone. I retrimmed the bottoms and have kept them in fresh water for about a week with no sign of roots. These were grown in deep shade, and the stems are very tender. Maybe they'd have a better chance if they had been grown in more sun and the stems were stockier. I'll let you know if they root.

Thanks for the genus name. I had seen that web page; the comments are about the most interesting I've read on the web, though most people are more enthusiastic about it than that writer. I was surprised to find as many as three reliable retail sources on the internet. Of course, I only found them after I had climbed mountains and swum rivers to get the few I have.