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James Burghardt
(Red Ginger Lily, Scarlet Butterfly Ginger, Scarlet Ginger)
Stiff, reed-like stems with large leaves are topped with a cluster of pale orange to scarlet flowers in the heat of summer and autumn. The scarlet ginger is a semi-evergreen tender perennial native to the low-elevation tropical mountains of the Himalayas to southern China and Burma. Growing from underground rhizomes, plants may be evergreen in hot tropical locales, but often die back from winter drought or frosts elsewhere. This herbaceous plant forms an upright, thick clump.
The long, lance-shaped...
Grandiflora
(Butterfly Ginger, Butterfly Lily, White Garland Lily)
Grown for its intensely fragrant flowers that hover like butterflies atop tall leafy stems, this tender herbaceous perennial is native from the Himalayan foothills to Southeast Asia.
The head-high stems of butterfly ginger arise from shallow creeping rhizomes in spring. The stems bear two opposite ranks of long, rich green, canna-like leaves with downy undersides. In late spring and summer, white fluttery flowers open from cone-like clusters at the stem tips. Comprising a broad upright two-lobed...
Forest & Kim Starr
(Yellow Ginger)
Stiff, reed-like stems with large leaves are topped with a cluster of pale to rich yellow flowers in summer and autumn. The yellow ginger is a semi-evergreen tender perennial native to Nepal and northeastern India. Growing from underground rhizomes, plants may be evergreen in hot tropical locales, but often die back from winter drought or frosts elsewhere. This herbaceous plant forms an upright, thick clump.
The long, lance-shaped leaves grow off of the upright stems. Crush the stem or leaves...
James Burghardt
(Hornbill's Ginger, Perched Gingerwort)
A rare tropical perennial, the hornbill's ginger produces fiery, multicolored flowers that look like something between a pointy tiara and Medusa's head. Native to the foothill mountains of Malaysia, this tender perennial grows from fleshy rhizomes either on trees as an epiphyte or on moist rocks as a lithophyte. The rhizomes adhere to the rock or tree bark and then absorb moisture and nutrients from piles of decaying leaf and insect debris. Cultivated hornbill's ginger will thrive if grown in loose...
