Saturday, February 20, 2010

TODAY'S FLOWERS ...Pink Shell Ginger..Alpinia zerumbet - Muschelingwer

Posted by MAKMU ta On Saturday, February 20, 2010 No comments

TODAY'S FLOWERS from around the world
can be viewed here:
http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/

Alpinia zerumbet - Shell Ginger.
Light galangal, Pink porcelain lily, Shell flower, Shell ginger, Variegated ginger,
Butterfly ginger, Japanese: gettō; Chinese: 艳山姜; pinyin: yàn shānjiāng
is a Chinese perennial plant of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
Native to eastern Asia, this plant is a rhizomatous, ever green tropical perennial
that grows in upright clumps 8–10 feet tall in tropical climates.
It bears funnel-formed flowers. Flowers have large yellow petals with red spots and stripes.

Muschel Ingwer stammt aus Ostasien.
Es handelt sich um eine immergrüne tropischen Staude mit trichterförmigen Blüten
und großen gelben Blüten mit roten Flecken und Streifen.
Sie wird ca. 8-10 Meter hoch und wächst in den Tropen.
Wird oft als Shell oder Shell-Blume bezeichnet,
weil die einzelnen rosa Blumenknospen Muscheln ähneln.


Pictures taken in Samana DR by guild-rez 2010
references Tropical Plants of the World by Jens G. Rohwer

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