Zingiber zerumbet

Zingiber zerumbet subsp. var.

Awapuhi, Pine-cone ginger, Shampoo ginger

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The query description has an empty condition.:	⌛	perennial
Origin:	✈	India
Poisonous:	☠
Bloom:	❀	late summer

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Features:	✓	flowers, fragrance, foliage
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Minimum Temp:	☃	-5°C
USDA Zones:		9 to 11
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Zingiberaceae >

Zingiber

zerumbet

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Zingiber zerumbet, Roscoe. Sts. 12-20 in. high, stout, from a tuberous rhizome: lvs. densely aggregated, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, both surfaces glabrous or scattered pilose beneath, 3 1/2 – 6 x 2 – 2 3/4 in.: spike subglobose, dense, 2 – 3 1/2 in. long; bracts obtuse, pale green, margins pubescent (sometimes, at least when older, red): calyx spathe-like, white; corolla-tube slender, lobes lanceolate, white, lip short, broadly suborbicular or subovate, pale yellow, tinted orange in the center (sometimes red-spotted), lateral lobes short, rotundate. India and Malaya. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

The large inflorescences are shaped like a cone, at first pale green then turning a strong red. Out of these the white with light yellow lip fragrant flowers bloom in late summer. Cut flowers last long. Stalks and leaves are erect and very ornamental. Dark green shiny leaves are on arching stems. The leaves and stalks are also fragrant.

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Cultivars

'Variegatum (syns. Zingiber darceyi, Z. 'Darceyi') - leaves have cream stripes. Plants are smaller and more frost sensitive.

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References

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381

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