Alpinia sp Very Rare This is the hardiest member

This is the hardiest member of the genus and

which would make the plant a mandarinquat wearing the wrong label

and fruiting even more heavily when a male happens to grow nearby

peeling trunk that becomes the main event once the leaves fall

Alpinia sp Very Rare This is the hardiest memberA hardy evergreen ginger of unsettled name, this Alpinia forms dense, upright clumps of lance shaped leaves that hold their fresh green right through the year in a mild climate, bringing a lush, tropical structure to the shade garden. In the warm months, bright yellow flower spikes rise above the foliage for an unexpected lift of color in deep shade. The plant came to Woodlanders by way of Frank Bell, who collected the ginger in 1998 in Sichuan