Other Names: Native Ginger
Botanical Name: Alpinia Caerulea
Family: Zingiberaceae
Native: Australia
 
An understorey plant from the Western Australian rainforest, this stunning plant can be enjoyed as an ornamental and also as an edible - its spicy ginger rhizome, and its blue berries, can both be eaten. While the berries have a pleasant lemony-ginger flavour, the seeds should not be eaten. The long petioles of this plant have a deep red underleaf, and fan out in a large circle around the plant, looking much like a large but short palm. A fully grown plant will grow upto two meters high and just as much wide. This is a shade loving perennial that needs the soil to be kept moist. Container friendly.
 
*** All our plants are grown organically without the use of any chemical fertlizers, fungicides or pesticides.