Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

Red Ginger

Alpinia purpurata

Spanish: Hawaiana

Red Ginger (Alpinia purpurata)
Photographed by malvizouri on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

Alpinia purpurata, red ginger, also called ostrich plume and pink cone ginger, are native Malaysian plants with showy flowers on long brightly colored red bracts. They look like the bloom, but the true flower is the small white flower on top. Most often recorded in Jul.

TaxonomyLiliopsida › Zingiberales › Zingiberaceae
Local records1 research-grade observation within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records22,162 on iNaturalist
Recorded here2020 – 2020
Months recorded near La Saladita
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Cite as: “Red Ginger (Alpinia purpurata) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/alpinia-purpurata/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.