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Alpinia caerulea - Native Ginger

 

The native ginger is an edible perennial herb, and is a good bush tucker plant. It has broad sword shaped green leaves with attractive red leaf
reverses. The fragrant white flowers are followed by blue berries. The new leaf shoots and berries have a mild ginger flavour and can be used in
cooking, or eaten fresh from the plant. It forms a clump to 2 metres tall, and is hardy, Likes a lightly shaded to full shade spot, and can be used
indoors. Likes water in dry spells. Grows from an underground rhizome, so the plant can be cut back hard if it looks untidy. Frost will damage the

leaves, but it should reshoot once the danger of frost is over, though hard and prolonged frost could kill the rhizome.

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Zingiberaceae

Alpinia caerulea

Native Ginger

Clumping perennial, Bulb or bulb-like

2 ~2.5 metres

1~2 metre

White

All year

Acid, Neutral

Loamy, Sandy loam, Clay loam, Potting mix
Low maintenance garden, Courtyard, Indoor, Poolside, Container growing
Sub-tropical, Warm temperate

Sunny, Light shade, Half shade, Heavy shade