Blue Ginger Question, Anyone Know What This Is?

Have already posted this on the Gingers forum, though I know it's not really a ginger.

What is this? It's growing from the blue ginger and looks like a flower, but wrong size, shape, color, growth habit. Plant is about three years old and has never bloomed. Could it be that they have both male and female flowers and this is the less showy one? Or have I just caused some malformation from hitting it with too much bloomblaster in a vain attempt to get it to bloom before I bring it in (any day now)?

Any explanation greatly appreciated.

Karen

It's not a flower for sure. It looks like those are leaves, but the green pigment is missing, or rather, the pigment that makes the leaves green is missing. It could prove to be a beautiful variegation. I would leave it attached to the mother plant because it probably would not survive if it were separated. If it does turn out to be a variegated sport, it would be rare, I think. If it's not attached to the blue ginger, than it could be something else entirely. This is the time of year when they usually flower.

How big is the blue ginger and is it mail ordered?.