Are the Genii Sequoia and Alpinia native to America ?
Alpinia Alpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is named for Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropical and subtropical climates. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants. Species of the genus are known generally as shell ginger.
Selkirkia (plant) Selkirkia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. Three species occur on the South American mainland and one, "Selkirkia berteroi" (sometimes written "berteri"), the first of the genus to be reported, is an endemic on Robinson Crusoe Island off the coast of Chile. It was previously considered a monotypic genus.