Blue Ginger Plant

Description:

The Blue Ginger plant is a popular ornamental landscaping plant for the tropical outdoor garden. The plant produces attractive, three-petalled flowers that are bluish in colour with small yellow centers. Flowers are borne on a terminal spike.

Habitat:

This plant grows in moist, shady areas, and although it is not recorded as being naturalized here in Hawaii, it can appear to be growing wild along shady roadsides and in abandoned gardens.

Notes:

The common name, ‘Blue Ginger’ is, in fact, a misnomer. This plant is botanically known as Dichorisandra thyrsiflora and it is not a true ginger at all.