I am rare to find in these parts of Texas and Nadine decided to buy all 5 of me..LOL...in all the darnest place to be..at a grocery store!! heheheheh
Can you guess who I am???
No, Ken, you don't have this one at all..just bought them yesterday...
Alpinia japonica "Extra spicy" is one of my favorite Alpinia. I am hoping to cross it with Alpinia rugosa or Alpinia intermedia "Sunspice" next year. I've grown "Extra spicy" since 2004 when Tim Chapman and I imported some together and it has proven very hardy. I have tried it in a few locations and I find it like mostly shade, with the Louisiana sun hitting it even it part sun it simply "dies".
Here is a fresh planting of Alpinia inermedia "Sunspice" that I started this year.
Yup that is it.. Mine will be in shade..
I do have one of those, it's still at your house.
LOL....ya think???
another good find don't ya just love it lol
YUP!!..lol
Nadine, is this one Sunspice or Extra Spicy? I have it in the ground and have a burned wooden marker that has Extra Spicy on it and want to make sure I am right.
With the coloring looks to me to be verigated young shell shows how much I know
I think it is a new sport of the old Variegated Shell.
Here is a pic of a bloom on Alpinia japonica. I crossed it with Alpinia rugosa this year and it is just beginning to ripen now.
http://www.cnhua.net/uploads/allimg/090811/1_090811104943_1.jpg
The plant pictured by Moodene is Alpinia japonica "Extra spicy". The one in the second picture that I posted is actually not Alpinia japonica it is Alpinia intermedia.
Thank you.
My plant tag and the written words says Alpinia 'Sunspice'. It doesnot have that word Extra Spicy anywhere on the tag or pot..
Keep us in touch with your project, Scott. cool flower!
Moodene, it must be the lighting in the photo that has it looking more like Extra spicy. I have found that my variegated A. intermedia is quite hardy and has been a consistent bloomer.
Thanks for the info!
