- Common Name: Shell Ginger, Light galangal, Pink porcelain lily
- Botanical Name: Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata'
- Family: Zingiberaceae
- Facts: Native to India, Shell ginger is a tall and dramatic landscape or container plant.
The leaves are about 2 ft long and 6 in across and strikingly variegated with irregular stripes of green and yellow in some varieties.
The habit is upright and does not require staking as do some other members of the ginger family. The flowers are white, tipped in pink,
and borne in long pendant arches. In some varieties, there is no pink in the tip. The individual flowers are reminiscent of small seashells,
which accounts for the common name "shell ginger".Typically, shell ginger grows to about 6 ft, but it can grow up to 12 ft high.
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