White butterfly ginger lily, or simply ginger lily, is a tropical perennial and a cousin of culinary ginger (Zingiber officinale) of bread, snap and ale fame. It's green stalks grow from thick rhizomes to a height of 3-7 ft (0.9-2.1 m). Leaves are lance-shaped and sharp-pointed, 8-24 in (20-61 cm) long and 2-5 in (5-12.7 cm) wide and arranged in 2 neat ranks that run the length of the stem. From midsummer through autumn the stalks are topped with 6-12 in (15.2-30.5 cm) long clusters of wonderfully fragrant white flowers that look like butterflies. The flowers eventually give way to showy seed pods chock full of bright red seeds.
又名香雪花,为姜科姜花属。寿命约3年。根茎与美人蕉相似,并具姜味,外皮淡红色。根呈白色,长30—60厘米,茎强壮。高1—2米,不分枝。叶为平行脉,宽10厘米,长20厘米,呈椭园披针形,叶柄长30厘米左右,包干茎上,叶16—17枚,互生于茎之两侧。花穗生于茎顶,外具绿色鳞片状苞,苞中开花4—6朵,萼薄如纸,花瓣3枚,不甚明显,雄蕊呈花瓣状,共3枚。左右两枚呈长椭园形,中间一枚较大,上端略分裂,其中央有长约3厘米的雌雄合蕊体,花纯白色,花期夏季。性喜高温、多湿、半荫环境。
Location
Ginger lily, Hedychium coronarium is native to India. It is a popular landscape plant throughout Florida, the Gulf Coast, California, the Caribbean and tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. Ginger lily also is grown in mild winter temperate regions of North America and Europe where it dies back in winter but re-emerges in spring.
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