Red ginger / Alpinia purpurata / Dwarf Red Cone Ginger has naturalized in Hawaii since 1928. Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

Red ginger (Alpinia purpurata, or Dwarf Red Cone Ginger, native to parts of Melanesia) was introduced in Hawaii as an ornamental as early as 1928 and is now naturalized. A clump of large bright red bracts bears the true flower which is small and white. In Samoa it is the national flower, called "teuila." Alpinia purpurata is in the Ginger family, Zingiberaceae. Photographed in a garden in Kaneohe, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

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Red ginger (Alpinia purpurata, or Dwarf Red Cone Ginger, native to parts of Melanesia) was introduced in Hawaii as an ornamental as early as 1928 and is now naturalized. A clump of large bright red bracts bears the true flower which is small and white. In Samoa it is the national flower, called "teuila." Alpinia purpurata is in the Ginger family, Zingiberaceae. Photographed in a garden in Kaneohe, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.