Mystery Flower (What is it?) *


Mystery Flower



Here is a flowering tree which is quite common around the Florida Gulf Coast - but nobody seems to know its name. (Do you?)

* Mystery solved: This is Alpinia zerumbet, or shell ginger. Seen in Hawai'i also, and throughout Asia.

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