Alpinia caerulea (Alpinia caerulea)
Description
Alpinia caerulea, the native ginger, is an understorey perennial herb to 3 m, growing under rainforest, gallery forest and wet sclerophyll forest canopy in eastern Australia.Leaves are up to 40 cm long and 3�10 cm wide. The inflorescence is 10�30 cm long.2 The blue capsule is globose 1 cm across, with a brittle outer covering containing black seed and white pulp.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Zingiberales
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Family: Zingiberaceae
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Genus: Alpinia
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