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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 tropical and subtropical climates. [ 2 ]
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Pleuranthodium racemigerum, commonly known as orange fruited ginger, is a plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae endemic to Queensland, Australia.It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller as Alpinia racemigera, and given its current name by Rosemary Margaret Smith.
Alpinia caerulea is a rhizomatous plant with arching stalks growing to 2–3 m (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) long. [4] [5] [6] Each carries a number of large alternately arranged leaves up to 40 cm (16 in) long and 10 cm (3.9 in) wide.
Alpinia galanga, [1] a plant in the ginger family, bears a rhizome used largely as an herb in Unani medicine and as a spice in Arab cuisine and Southeast Asian cookery. It is one of four plants known as "galangal". Its common names include greater galangal, lengkuas, and blue ginger.
Alpinia hylandii is a plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a herbaceous shrub which grows to about 1 m high, and like many other gingers the true stems are underground and only the branches appear above ground. It has glossy leaves up to 16 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.
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Alpinia purpurata, commonly referred to as red ginger, ostrich plume and pink cone ginger, is a ginger native to Maluku and the southwest Pacific islands.In typical ginger fashion, A. purpurata is a rhizomatous plant, spreading underground in a horizontal growth habit, sending feeder roots downwards into the substrate and sprouting leafy vertical stems from nodes located along the rhizome.