Alpinia Katsumadai
''Alpinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is named for Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropics, tropical and subtropics, subtropical climates.''Alpinia''.
Flora of China. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants.''Alpinia''.
Flora of North America. Species of the genus are known generally as shell ginger.

Description

These herbs lack true stems, but have pseudostems usually up to about long which are composed of the overlapping leaf sheaths ...
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Alpinia Zerumbet
''Alpinia zerumbet'', commonly known as shell ginger, is a perennial species of ginger native to East Asia. They can grow up to tall and bear colorful funnel-shaped flowers. They are grown as ornamentals and their leaves are used in cuisine and traditional medicine. They are also sometimes known as the pink porcelain lily, variegated ginger or butterfly ginger. Characteristics Native to eastern Asia, this plant is a rhizomatous, evergreen tropical perennial that grows in upright clumps tall in tropical climates. It bears funnel-formed flowers. Flowers have white or pink perianths with yellow labella with red spots and stripes. There are three stamens, but only one has pollen. There is one pistil. The fruit is globose with many striations. In more typical conditions, it reaches feet tall in the green house, and feet tall, as a house plant. It was originally called ''Alpinia speciosa'', which was also the scientific name of torch ginger. To avoid the confusion, it was r ...
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