Ginger Red Wood Print

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The Etlingera elatior, Red Torch Ginger, produces dramatic flowers on glossy cherry red bracts on very long stems (3 to 4 feet). As the bracts open up, the lower bracts curl down giving the appearance of flower petals. Most people think of the red bracts as the bloom, but the true flower are small yellow flowers that eventually poke out of the bracts as they age.

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...