Hedychium coccineum
| orange bottlebrush ginger orange gingerlily scarlet gingerlily | |
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| Hedychium coccineum by William Roscoe 1828 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Hedychium |
| Species: | H. coccineum |
| Binomial name | |
| Hedychium coccineum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. in A.Rees | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hedychium coccineum, also known as orange gingerlily, scarlet gingerlily, and orange bottlebrush ginger), is a species of flowering ginger. It is native of southern China (Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan), the Himalayas, India and Indochina.[1][2][3][4][5]
Hedychium coccineum grows on the edge of forests and in mountain grasslands. Hedychium coccineumcan prefers partial sunshine, but can tolerate full sun. The flowers can range in color from red to orange to almost yellow.
Tom Wood developed a number of varieties of Hedychium coccineum including aurantiacum, commercially known as "Orange Bush" or "Flaming Torch", which grows to about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) with two close ranks of waxy leaves. The flower spike has six rows of small orange flowers with 7 cm (2.8 in). Orange stamens radiate outward.
References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Flora of China v 24 p 375, 红姜花 hong jiang hua, Hedychium coccineum Smith in Rees, Cycl. 17: Hedychium no. 5. 1811.
- ↑ Albano, P.-O. (2003). La Conaissance des Plantes Exotiques: 1-324. Édisud, Aix-en-Provence.
- ↑ Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ↑ Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.