alpinia speciosa

Questions about alpinia speciosa

What does alpinia speciosa mean?

alpinia speciosa means "cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes".

What is another word for alpinia speciosa?

Close synonyms include shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpinia speciosa a common word?

alpinia speciosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.