Alpinia luteocarpa

This fragrant ginger looks like a dwarf bamboo bush. This Ginger boasts dark green leaves with red undersides. Bamboo Ginger is also a fragrant ginger that looks like a dwarf bamboo bush with a great clumping habit. Perfect patio container plant. Prefers some shade. Mature height of 2-3'. Zones 7 and higher. Reaches 2-3' and produces flowers.

The specific epithet luteocarpa means yellow fruit. The genus Alpinia is named after the Italian botanist and physician Prospero Alpino (1553-1616) who was a professor of botany at the university of Padua and extensively studied the Egyptian and Mediterranean flora.

Similar plants:

• Alpinia argentea (Yellow Ginger Lily )
• Alpinia galanga, Languas galanga (Galanga Root, Galangal, Thai Ginger, Laos )
• Alpinia gigantifolia, Zingiber gigantifolium (Red Ginger Lily)
• Alpinia henryi 'Pink Perfection' (Pink porcelain lily)
• Alpinia malaccensis (Rathkihiriya)
• Alpinia nutans, Alpinia speciosa (Shell ginger, Pink porcelain lily, Narrow-Leaf Cinnamon Ginger, Shellflower, Dwarf cardamom, False cardamom)
• Alpinia officinarum (Lesser Galangal)
• Alpinia purpurata (Red Ginger Lily, Ostrich Plume, Red Cone Ginger)
• Alpinia rugosa (Evergreen Broadleaf Ginger)
• Alpinia sp. (Ginger Lily)