Pink porcelain lily

Alpinia zerumbet

Description:

When I took these pictures were more people to shoot them and the place was protected or was private. I was always curious about this plant, but never did find out the species.

1 Species ID Suggestions

craigwilliams 12 years ago

Shell Ginger

Alpinia zerumbet http://www.google.com/search?pq=Alpinia&hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&ds=i&cp=9&gs_id=8&xhr=t&q=Alpinia+zerumbet&um=1&client=safari&rls=en&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1131&bih=526&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=N3oPT4WGLoOD8gPulciCBA

2 Comments

RaquelAntunes 12 years ago

Thanks Craig for the ID
Now I know the species i really should not put it in Portugal´s Biodiversity

craigwilliams 12 years ago

Stunning plant but from Eastern Asia so weather it should be considered part of Portugel's Biodiversity is debatable. Hopefully it's not jumping the fence out of the protected place!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinia_zer...

Spotted by
RaquelAntunes

Azores, Portugal

Spotted on Aug 2, 2009
Submitted on Jan 13, 2012

Spotted for Mission

Plants of Ecuador