Red ginger plant

While staying in Maui last July, I did not have a chance to do much photography since it was mainly family time. But when I did have time, I wandered around the neighborhood photographing the plants and fruit trees. Tried to photograph some the numerous feral chickens, but they scurried off really quickly. So the ginger plants sufficed.

Torch gingers (Nicolaia elatior) have many common names including red ginger lily, torch...

Zingiberaceae has got to be my favorite plant family on the ranch. I am repeatedly surprised by their diverse shapes and colors of their flowers and by their profoundly beneficial medicinal proper…

When Polynesian voyagers set sail across the Pacific, they packed ‘awapuhi in their canoes. It is one of the 27 species known as “canoe plants.”

Amongst all the greenery of tropical foliage, plants and palms, brilliant splashes of colour in contemporary Thai gardens can be provided by the Ginger plant family. Consisting of 45 genera containing 700 species, the Gingers are a varied family. A popular strain of the Ginger family, one often utilised within Thai gardens, is the 'Red Ginger' [...]