Alpinia Fax
''Alpinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. 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.

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by the Scottish botanist William Roxburgh in 1810, and published in the journal Asiatic Researches. It is named after Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants. Species of the genus are known generally as shell gingers.
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Alpinia Zerumbet
''Alpinia zerumbet'', commonly known as shell ginger among other names, is a perennial species of ginger native to East Asia. The plants 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. Names ''Alpinia zerumbet'' is called a "shell ginger" or "shell flower" most commonly, because its individual pink flowers, especially when in bud, resemble sea shells. Other common names in English include "pink porcelain lily", "variegated ginger, "butterfly ginger", and "light galangal". In Japan, ''A. zerumbet'' is called ''gettō'' () in standard Japanese. In the languages of the Ryukyu Islands, it is known as ''sannin'' () on Okinawa, ''shanin'' () on Tanegashima in the Ōsumi Islands, ''sa'nen'' () on Amami Ōshima, ''sani'' () on Okinoerabujima, ''samin'' () on Miyako-jima, ''samin'' (), ''sa'nin'' () and ''sami'' () on Ishigaki Island, ''sami'' () on Taketomi Island and ''sa ...
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