


The flowers make beautiful, long-lasting cut flowers and are popular for tropical flower arrangements.

Here in Hawaii, Red Ginger is usually found growing at the edge of lowland forests, trails and roads. The pseudostems (formed by the leaf sheaths) emerge from underground rhizomes. A great addition to tropical landscapes and outdoor living spaces, with the lush evergreen foliage and eye-catching flowers in shady tropical borders, massed. The leaves are green, alternate, sessile, and oblong in shape. A very easy to grow ornamental ginger with exotic, vibrant red-orange, waxy blooms that top glossy green foliage gently spiraled along thick, upright stems. The flowers are occasionally followed by rounded seed capsules. Develop the dough into a log shape about 1-foot (30 cm) long and cut it into eight pieces. Common ginger and its cousin turmeric are edible in all their parts, so if you have those use them however you like. Combine in a bowl the onions, coriander leaves, and garlic chives. Shell ginger (Alpinia zerumbet) has leaves that make a tasty tea. Young plantlets emerge from the base of the old inflorescences and can take root if they touch the ground. Turn the ball out onto a floured surface and knead by hand for a minute to develop the gluten. Height: To 15 feet (5 m) tall, but usually much less.ĭescription: The small, inconspicuous, tubular, white flowers emerge from between colorful floral bracts on terminal flower spikes. The much more conspicuous floral bracts are red, pink, or white. This naturalized ornamental garden plant is native to parts of Melanesia.įlower Color: White.
