When I give a gentle squeeze to the red ‘cone’ of pinecone ginger, a clear, fragrant liquid seeps out of the plant and onto my hand. It’s not sticky. Rather, it feels fresh and fr… ...

Shampoo ginger is another common name for this plant because of this characteristic. It produces the showy pine cone structures in late summer through fall.

Zingiber zerumbet is a real attention-getter. Better known as pinecone ginger or shampoo ginger, this perennial beauty sports cone-shaped structures called bracts that change from a light green to … ...

Native to Southeast Asia, pinecone ginger has been widely cultivated in warm, humid places around the world. The cone is actually a tight cluster of bracts from which the plant’s teeny white ...

You can purchase and plant a rhizome and, in a year, you can harvest tubers from it. Pine cone ginger is frequently seen in local landscapes. It is also known as bitter or shampoo ginger.

A: Pine cone ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, is a great plant for summer gardens. The common name comes from its cone-shaped bracts. These green cones (actually inflorescences) are decorated with white ...

The fossilized pine cone is from an extinct species of pine tree called Pinus cembrifolia. Preserved in Baltic amber, clusters of needles are visible, some in bundles of five.

Rose pine cone is a stunning little perennial you may never have heard of or seen, but it's a plant with a bright future.

An old favorite plant, pine cone ginger is a traditional southern 'pass along' plant, given by friends to new neighbors and gardeners.

Collecting a bushel of red pine cones this fall could earn you $100 and help the Michigan DNR plant trees in state forests.

From Sept. 1-30, people can pick fresh pine cones from red pine trees and drop them off by appointment at six DNR locations across the Upper and Northern Lower Peninsulas.