Hedychium ellipticum
- Product number: 721755.1
- Origin: South Asia
- Latin: Hedychium ellipticum
A beautiful Ornamental Ginger with spherical flower clusters, white flowers and long yellow pistils with even longer orange stamens, very elegant! The flowers have a wonderful fragrance and bloom at a height of 100-150 cm. This tropical plant must be brought indoors as soon as night frosts are announced. Keep the plant moderately moist; in winter, it usually goes dormant and only the (ever-growing) tuber remains.
Denominations:
Latin: Hedychium ellipticum
Dutch: Bolvormige Siergember
English: Shell Ginger
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- Flower colour: White flowers with long yellow pistils and orange stamens
- Average growth height: More than 120 cm
- Bulb / tuber size: I
- Attractive to insects:
- Annual or perennial: Perennial
- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Origin: South Asia
- Ease of cultivation: Advanced
- Latin: Hedychium ellipticum
- Dutch: Globe Ginger
- Also known as: N/A
- English: Shell Ginger
