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Hedychium coronarium

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By Pitta


Hedychium coronarium (Hedychium coronarium (Butterfly Ginger))

Common nams white butterfly ginger perfumed



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Now this is so beautiful ... this is on my 'wish list'!

5 Mar, 2010

 

its a beatiful Hedychium . lovely perfume, there are other colours too . this is my first flower.

5 Mar, 2010

 

its so lovely, such a pretty flower

5 Mar, 2010

 

you can smell the perfume before you reach the plant

6 Mar, 2010

 

Beautiful.

6 Mar, 2010

 

Thanks everyone for comments .

Bernie when I send the bulb later I will put in a tuber of the butterfly inger for you

7 Mar, 2010

 

Oh you are wonderful ... that would be fantastic! It's generous and very kind, thanks so much Pitta.

7 Mar, 2010

 

No trouble I enjoy sharing .

8 Mar, 2010

 

That is really lovely, I am hoping I can pamper mine into flowering, it is a Coronarium has lovely leaves but no flowers as yet!!

19 Apr, 2010

 

I just got another one with .A Hedychium "orange" flowers I havent got a species name . when it flowers nrxt christmas I may be able to get the species name.

20 Apr, 2010

 

Where do you buy them from Pitta garden centers, market ,? I bought mine from a car boot I had never seen them before.

21 Apr, 2010

 

Ebay, nurseries, markets,garden shops. I got my latest one from e bay auction.

22 Apr, 2010

 

this is such a great ginger, personally i think its the strongest smelling one, when they bloom you can smell them yards away!!! great cut flowers too!!!

9 Jan, 2011

 

It does have a great perfume . I rarely pick flowers I prefer to enjoy them in the garden .

9 Jan, 2011

 

Lovely flower, Pitta! I'm going to try and get one. Is it hardy? I remember seeing something like this in my uncle's garden in India many years ago when I was a child. The climate is hot and humid over there.

21 Feb, 2011

 

Same climate here . Its hardy, and flowers in Brisbane as well .

22 Feb, 2011




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