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 Photo# 9120 taken by From http://ca.geocities.com/clajeux/ - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 2760 taken 27 November, 1999 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 2755 taken 15 December, 1999 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 2765 taken 23 July, 2000 by Dave Skinner at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami, FL - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 2762 taken 25 July, 2000 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 504 taken 28 September, 2001 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 7860 taken 23 June, 2003 by Dave Skinner from Tom Wood's prints William Roscoe print of - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 9124 taken 21 September, 2003 by Dave Skinner at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Note, planted in full sun - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 9122 taken 21 September, 2003 by Dave Skinner at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Note, planted in full sun - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 9123 taken 21 September, 2003 by Dave Skinner at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Note, planted in full sun - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 9121 taken 10 October, 2003 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 10188 taken 16 September, 2004 by Dave Skinner at Golden Gate Park Conservatory, San Francisco, CA - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 10189 taken 16 September, 2004 by Dave Skinner at Golden Gate Park Conservatory, San Francisco, CA - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 10186 taken 17 October, 2004 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
 Photo# 10187 taken 17 October, 2004 by Dave Skinner at Le Jardin Ombragé - Hedychium coronarium |
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BUY THIS PLANT from GingersRus. PLANT FAMILY: Zingiberaceae BOTANICAL NAME: Hedychium coronarium TYPE PLANT: perennial - HEIGHT: 5-6 ft (inches unless otherwise noted) - HABIT: - USES: BLOOMING: Season- Colors- Fragrance-heavy Profusion-Medium USDA ZONES: 7 to HEAT TOLERANCE:- SOIL: Moisture-Moist Fertility-Rich pH-Neutral COMMON NAMES: white butterfly ginger lily, SYNONYMS: GINGERSRUS CATALOG LISTING:  Hedychium coronarium is probably the most commonly grown of all ornamental gingers, and with good reason. It has adds a tropical look to the garden, provides beautiful white flowers from summer to fall, and yields a heavy sweet fragrance that will fill the evening air. The only negative with this plant, is that it will tend to flop over when the flower heads get too heavy, and will need some staking.In my garden Hedychium coronarium grows to 8 feet tall, planted in very rich moist, organic soil in a clay base amended with lots of compost, and in 4-5 hours of direct sun. When I have seen it in other plantings in South Florida in a sandy based soil, it has never been nearly so tall, growing to only 5 or 6 ft tall at the most. Hardiness is usually rated to zone 7 in most references, and I have had confirmed reports from correspondents in Great Britain, in the Pacific Northwest and in the upper South, that it is root hardy to as low as 2 degrees F. Grow this Hedychium in rich, moist, organic soil in part to full sun. It must have at least a couple of hours of direct sun to bloom well. Detailed growing instructions will be included with the plant.  BOTANICAL NOTES: The Study of Zingiberaceae in Thailand, by Puangpen Sirirugsa - Distinguished characters.- Erect herb, about 1-2 meters tall. Inflorescence compact, ellipsoid. Flower pure white and fragrant. Thailand.- NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, and widely cultivated. Distribution.- India, Myanmar. Uses.- The rhizome is stimulant and carminative. A decoction of the stem is gargled for tonsillitis. The flower is eaten as vegetable. It is also a source of perfume. Described in Flora of China, Vol. 24 (Flagellariaceae-Marantaceae). Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden. Mentions a H. coronarium var. baimao. Listed as a naturalized species in Hawaii, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana by the Biota of North America Program. TAXONOMY NOTES BY BRIAN MIDDLEDITCH - Hedychium coronarium Koenig: ANGUS BOTANICAL PRINTS - TITLE: Hedychium coronarium. [1828]. 1 print : lithograph, col. ; 54 x 42 cm. Published in William Roscoe, Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Botanical Gardens at Liverpool, pl. 51.[With original text description] Botanical illustration of a member of the ginger (Zingiberaceae) family. LISTING AT: Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami, Florida IMAGE AT FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDEN WEBSITE of Hedychium coronarium Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, "The Domes", Milwaukee, WI GINGERS OF PENINSULAR MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE, Dr. Kai Larsen, et al - on checklist HORTICULTURAL NOTES: Le Jardin Ombragé - Don't sell this one short just because it is common-place. It has nearly everything a ginger has to offer. Mine started out with a little rhizome my wife bought in 1995 at Lowes - my first ginger and I had no idea what it was. I planted it in full shade and it bloomed the first year, but never again in that location. Then I started learning about gingers and moved it to a sunnier location. Voila! I now have it in several places in the garden ranging from about 5 hours direct sun to light shade. It grows tallest (up to 8 ft) and blooms best if given a few hours direct sun. It is probably the most fragrant of the Hedychiums, with a sweet gardenia-like fragrance, especially at night. In 1999 I collected seed from the bright red seed pods (see image 5). They germinated well and produced plants that are 3-4 ft tall as of August 2000 from seed sown the preceding December. This continued to thrive in 2001, growing to 8 ft tall and blooming well. This species tends to fall over, especially when there has been heavy rains and when the infl. weights down plant. Clarence Hester of Durham, NC, heste018@mc.duke.edu - I can vouch for the fact that Hedychium Coronarium is very hardy. While rare, our winter temperatures can get down as low as 2 degrees F (but not for extended periods of time). The last time that happened, I think in '94, I actually lost an entire clump of established Canna lilies, which almost never happens here. The so-called "butterfly" gingers were unscathed, even though there was no mulch on them. There is another "pink" variety, name unknown, but sold by Plant Delights Nursery, that is very hardy. From: dave-poole@ilsham.demon.co.uk (David Poole) - very hardy here in the far south west of the UK(51'7 N) with no over-wintering problems SOUTHERN PERENNIALS - White, fragrant terminal flowers in late summer. Partial shade best; will take some sun if the soil is kept moist. Widely considered the hardiest of the gingers. Tropical Asia. Zones 7-11. GAINESVILLE TREE FARM - Beautiful white, extremely fragrant fls. to 3" across STOKES TROPICALS - Probably the most commonly grown ginger in the U.S.. Has many outstanding attributes: most fragrant of the Hedychiums, the largest flower, and the hardiest. Outstanding large white flowers that are extremely fragrant from late summer well into the fall. Prefers partial shade but will grow in full sun. Grows 3' - 4' high. Every garden should have a patch of coronarium for fragrance alone. ALOHA TROPICALS - Each individual flower on the terminal green cone looks like a white butterfly in flight. One whiff of the flowers and it sends mental images of the tropics to your mind. Needs some sun to bloom. Highly perfumed! PLANTATION GARDENS - White fragrant flowers are borne on top of 4-5 foot tall plants in late summer and early fall. The flowers have pure white petals with a hint of green in the throat and are fragrant. Will tolerate full sun with adequate moisture. From tropical Asia. PICTURE OF BUTTERFLY FLOWER HORTICOPIA - Grows in USDA zones 8B to 11, Height: 4' to 6' / 1.20m to 1.80m, Prefers partial shade to full sun and moist to wet soil GANESH MANI PRADHAN & SON - (West Bengal, INDIA, Wholesale only) offers this species. (Large, fragrant white flowers in summer) BOTANICAL GARDENS: (Gingers Only - Listing of locations where this plant can be seen.) Calgary Zoo & Botanical Gardens, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, Illinois, USA Florida Botanical Garden, Largo, Florida, USA Fullerton Arboretum, Fullerton, California, USA Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Houston, Texas, USA Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Neuer Botanischer Garten Goettingen, Grisebachstr, Goettingen, Germany New Orleans Botanical Garden, New York Botanical Garden, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
