Alpinia caerulea, commonly known as native ginger or Australian ginger, is an understorey perennial herb in the family Zingiberaceae which grows in rainforest, gallery forest and wet sclerophyll forests in eastern Australia.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Native Ginger being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Alpinia arundelliana
- Alpinia flabellata
- Alpinia modesta
- Alpinia zerumbet
- Alpinia kawakamii
- Pleuranthodium racemigerum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Zingiberales
- Family
- Zingiberaceae
- Genus
- Alpinia
- Species
- Alpinia caerulea
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