shell ginger

English

Shell Ginger

Noun

shell ginger (usually uncountable, plural shell gingers)

An East Asian plant related to ginger, Alpinia zerumbet, grown for its showy flowers, which are shell-pink on the outside and intensely orange and red on the inside.

Translations

Alpinia zerumbet

Atayal: bsyaw

Japanese: 月桃 (ja) (げっとう, gettō)

Further reading

shell ginger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Alpinia zerumbet on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Alpinia zerumbet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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