Botanical Name: Common Names:
Alpinia mutica Small Shell Ginger,
Native: Foliage Type:
No Evergreen
Plant Type: Plant Habit:
Palms, Ferns & Tropical Clumping, Dense, Shrub Like, Upright
Description:
Hardy evergreen clumping ginger growing to 1.5m in height, commonly known as the Cardamon Ginger because of its spicy fragrant leaves once rubbed together. Producing beautiful white upright shell shaped flowers in spring, it makes an excellent landscape plant for mass planting or screen and borders.
Mature Height: Mature Width:
1-2m 60cm-1m
Position: Soil Type:
Full Sun, Semi Shade Well Drained