Crepe Ginger

This spiral ginger plant is nice to touch. The leaves feel soft, furry and velvety to the touch. It is a beautiful plant that one can easily fall in love with. The leaves are arranged gracefully as they spiral up the herbaceous reddish brown stalk. Since the plant I have is the variegated type,  the plant seems more special with the white and pale green leaves.   The foliage is attractive and tropical looking even  from afar. 

The flowers are an added bonus,  being pure  white and  being rather conspicuous in size yet delicate looking like crepe paper, all crinkled up.  Every day one or two blooms (or more) will appear on the cone that appears on the tip of the stalk.   When all the flowers have bloomed, and  faded away, the strange looking but attractive red cone-shaped bracts remain. This is the cue for me to cut it off.

This plant has a visitor whenever it flowers. Without fail when the sunlight comes through, this fat little black fella appears! With a buzzing sound (announcing its arrival), it goes straight to greet its host.

Now it has its breakfast and ready to depart. Goodbye....until the next morning, same time!