Okay consider the beans spilled. It is a wild ginger that is called a Torch locally. The torch part is about 1 1/2 feet tall and the individual flowers/blossoms are a bright bright red. This one is just about set to become compost hence the brown colour.
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OK, spill the beans, what is it? At first glance it looked like a pine cone but now I think maybe some tropical flower head.
Okay consider the beans spilled. It is a wild ginger that is called a Torch locally. The torch part is about 1 1/2 feet tall and the individual flowers/blossoms are a bright bright red. This one is just about set to become compost hence the brown colour.
No Gingers grow about here but I have seen the flowers and should have realized that’s what it was.
we all get caught short sometimes.