Wild Flowering Plants
| Zingiberaceae family Alpinia zerumbet (Persoon) B. L. Burtt & R. M. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 31(2): 204. 1972. Bas.: Costus zerumbet Persoon (1805). Shell Ginger Escaped rare herb of wet roadsides. Native to tropical Asia, China, Japan. Also a cultivated ornamental. Local medicinal uses |