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Shellflower

noun
1.
Showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple.  Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead.
2.
Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes.  Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger.






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Words linked to "Shellflower" :   swamp plant, Alpinia, Chelone, genus Languas, genus Alpinia, bog plant, genus Zerumbet, marsh plant, genus Chelone, ginger



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