Names of hedychium coronarium in various languages of the world are also given. In the summer and fall it bears fragrant flowers that resemble butterflies, thus the common name, butterfly ginger. Hedychium ginger lily are wonderful passalong perennial plants that are finally available in many new varieties and species. The flowers eventually give way to showy seed pods chock full of bright red seeds. It is a rhizomatous tender perennial that may grow to 10 tall in its native habitat, but more typically grows 36 tall. These laborintensive methods are effective on invasive ginger species in. There are approximately 7080 known species, native to india, southeast asia, and madagascar. Hedychium coronarium, white ginger, butterfly ginger lily.
Hedychium coronarium is a stout, strongly aromatic, perennial plant growing 1 2. Koenig is an accepted name this name is the accepted name of a species in the genus hedychium family zingiberaceae. White ginger hedychium coronarium is has the potential to be a significant environmental weed in the subtropical and warmer temperate regions of australia, particularly in coastal wetland areas subject to seasonal flooding. Two types of animal models were used in this study. Hedychium coronarium flowers free photo on pixabay. Hedychium longicornutum hornbills ginger out of stock. What they like is a moist soil and a shadier position. Composition of essential oils of four hedychium species from vietnam.
The flowers are arranged in a large elongated cluster 1545 cm long. Hedychium coronarium grows well in full sun near the coast but requires a shady spot for inland gardens. Leaves simple, alternate, tworanked, sessile at the top of the leaf sheath, blade elliptic to lanceolate, 2030 x 310 cm, pubescent on lower surface. This document is fps240, one of a series of the environmental horticulture department, ufifas extension. Surveys to the native range in 20082010 revealed a large suite of natural enemies associated with h. The flowers are arranged in relatively short cluster 720 cm long. Hedychium coronarium white ginger lily will reach a height of 3m and a spread of 1m after 510 years. Hedychium coronarium white ginger lily, butterfly ginger. Hedychium coronarium is pretty cold hardy often coming back from 10 f. If you would like to buy hedychiums butterfly liliy plants online just do your search on himalayan garden.
Hedychium coronarium should be controlled at kamakou, especially in drainages because of a threat to rare mesic shrubland flora in these sites. Nutrients free fulltext glycemia lowering effect of. Butterfly ginger, butterfly lily, white garland lily. Culinary plants, cut flower plants, fragrant flowers, hummingbird plants, pollinator plants, plants named after animals, plants that attract birds, rabbit resistant. Hedychium coronarium herb uses, benefits, cures, side effects. This refers to the fragrant white flower of the type species h. White butterfly ginger, garland flower fragrant plants. Fps240 hedychium coronarium butterfly ginger1 edward f.
Hedychium coronarium butterfly ginger, white garlandlily. The hedychium coronarium is a popular variety grown across the world as it has a brilliant white scented flower and one of the strongest flower scents. Herb, perennial, erect, unbranched, to 2 m high, growing from a rhizome. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. How hedychium coronarium is effective for various diseases is listed in repertory format. Hedychium coronarium white ginger, butterfly ginger lily hedychium flavum yellow butterfly ginger, nardo ginger lily. Highly fragrant, white, butterfly shaped, corollas emerge sequentially from between the green bracts of the terminal. Hedychiums butterfly liliy is now on available in himalayan garden.
Uses, benefits, cures, side effects, nutrients in hedychium coronarium. Hedychium coronarium aka white ginger lily, butterfly ginger lily. Although they are commonly called ginger lily, they are not a true lily genus lilium, but instead are related to true ginger plant zingiber. Hedychium coronarium is a longlived herbaceous plant usually growing 12. White ginger plants tend to flop when conditions become too dry. Hedychium coronarium white ginger lily butterfly lily. Hedychium coronarium has a long history of use worldwide as a food and in folk medicine.
It has been taken to many parts of the world and is a popular. Planting instructions pdf seed germination instructions pdf. Particularly showy, bearing orangescarlet flowers with prominent red stamens on blossom spikes to 10 inches long. Plants profile for hedychium coronarium white garlandlily. This item is a plant, and will arrive in 4 pots from tissue culture. Hedychium coronarium, commonly called white ginger lily or garland flower, is perhaps native to the himalayas but it has been widely cultivated in tropical asia. Naturalized populations have been reported several times from southern louisiana, but the specimens i have seen are sterile and cannot be identified with certainty. White ginger hedychium coronarium yellow ginger hedychium flavescens summary hedychium gardnerianum is a popular garden plant that is widely available in nurseries. This late summer bloomer is an elegant and very attractive bog plant. Some common names for hedychium include ginger lily, butterfly lily, and garland lily. Hedychium species, butterfly ginger, butterfly lily, garland lily, white ginger hedychium coronarium by tbrooks dec 3, 2002 4. Hedychium definition of hedychium by the free dictionary.
Two new labdane diterpenoids, namely hedycoronals a and b 1 and 2, resp. A downloadable pdf document of a book in prepublication awaiting illustration. From midsummer through autumn the stalks are topped with 612 in long clusters of wonderfully fragrant white flowers that look like butterflies and smell like gardenias. However it is one of the most difficult to get into flower without a lot of heat and light. Hedychium plant growing guide how to grow ginger lily. It produces a thick mat of creeping underground stems rhizomes close to the soil surface. Labdane diterpenes from the rhizomes of hedychium coronarium. Konig, a cultivated species with sweet fragrance and imbricate bracts and the other is hedychium forrestii diels.
The species is hermaphrodite has both male and female organs. Hedychium coronarium butterfly ginger, white garlandlily, garland. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. However, it is a major pest in hawaii, new zealand, the azores and south africa. Hedychium coronarium white ginger lilyrhs gardening. The atlas of florida plants provides a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state and taxonomic information. Preparation of aqueous extract of hedychium coronarium and sugarout the hc containing 1. Online plant guide hedychium coronarium butterfly ginger. Plants bend over under the heavy weight of flower heads. Hedychium coronarium butterfly ginger lily by mauroguanandi. Y zeng, j zhao, y penga comparative study on the free radical scavenging activities of some. Hedychium is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family zingiberaceae, native to lightly wooded habitats in asia.
Butterfly ginger, hedychium coronarium, has one of the most distinctively sweet smelling delicate white flowers of all bog plants. Noted for its intense, luxurious fragrance, awardwinning hedychium coronarium white ginger lily is an upright rhizomatous perennial boasting dense spikes, up to 8 in. Hedychium synonyms, hedychium pronunciation, hedychium translation, english dictionary definition of hedychium. This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. Architectural, beds and borders, city, conservatory, containers, cottageinformal, indoor, subtropical. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Disney has bluish gray foliage and reddish stems and leaf undersides. Hedychium white butterfly has white flowers with a creamy yellow accent and a gardenialike fragrance. It produces a thick mat of creeping underground stems close to the soil surface. Hence, the study has been undertaken to evaluate h. They are used as borders and mass plantings in florida, california and along the gulf coast.
Download this free picture about hedychium coronarium flowers from pixabays vast library of public domain images and videos. Hedychium are very fragrant plants and should be grown where they can be appreciated or in borders. To 69 feet tall, with leaves to 20 inches long and 2 inches wide. Large buds produce fragrant flowers in late spring and summer. Hedychium coronarium is a top selling ginger and the most fragrant of all. Kamakou staff has effectively controlled some hedychium coronarium populations by a combination of manual and mechanical means. Genus hedychium are rhizomatous perennials with erect, unbranched stems bearing two ranks of lanceshaped leaves, and dense terminal racemes of showy, often fragrant, trumpetshaped flowers details tara is an erect herbaceous perennial with stems to 2m in height, bearing lanceshaped leaves 3040cm in length. Hedychium coronarium herb uses, benefits, cures, side. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Koenig commonly known as butterfly ginger or gulbakawali is an ornamental, medicinal and aromatic rhizomatous herb belonging to the family zingiberaceae.
Zingiberaceae white ginger, butterfly ginger lily origin. D djeddour, cabi e uk, personal communication, 2011. 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. Grow in fertile, humusrich, moist, free draining soil in full sun or light shade. Zingiberaceae is a rhizomatous flowering plant popularly called white ginger lily. This page was last edited on 17 december 2019, at 19. An essential oil from the roots is carminative and has anthelmintic indications.
List of various diseases cured by hedychium coronarium. The flowers of hedychium coronarium are very fragrant. When planted in full sun in a dry soil the plant looks pretty miserable often curling its leaves until the sun passes over. Hedychium coronarium white ginger, butterfly ginger. It has the potential to form pure stands within the understorey of upland rainforests and other moist. Flower color is whitecream and blooms in fall, summer. Some species have become widely naturalized in other lands, and considered invasive in some places. Nutrients free fulltext glycemia lowering effect of an.
Each flower lasts about one day, but several hundred flowers can appear during a 6week period. The record derives from wcsp data supplied on 20120326 which reports it as an accepted name record 248115 with original publication details. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of an aqueous extract of h. Inflorescence and flower development in the hedychieae. Its weed potential may be similar to kahili ginger hedychium gardnerianum and yellow ginger. Phytochemistry and pharmacology of ornamental gingers. Hedychium coronarium white butterfly ginger lily cabi. Chichester gingers national collection of ornamental gingers. General information hedychium coronarium is a stout, strongly aromatic, perennial plant growing 1 2. Culinary plants, cut flower plants, fragrant flowers, hummingbird plants, pollinator plants, plants named after animals, plants that attract birds, rabbit resistant plants, salt.
They are easy to grow so long as you provide them with what they want. Hedychium coronarium belongs to the zingiberaceae ginger family of the. The genus name hedychium is derived from two ancient greek words, hedys meaning sweet and chios meaning snow. Provided by ars systematic botany and mycology laboratory. Hedychium or ginger lilies are part of zingerberaceae family. Hedychium coronarium does best with regular moisture. Hedychium coronarium grows dense clusters of tall upright pseudostems with opposite lanceolate leaves, which grow from underground rhizomes. It was cultivated in english glasshouses in the late 18th century and in 1803 was noted as being very rare in curtiss botanical magazine csurhes and hannanjones, 2008.
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