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Hedychium coronarium
Also called White Ginger, Butterfly Ginger, White Ginger Lily, Butterfly Lily, Cinnamon Jasmine, Garland Flower, Garland Flowers
In Singapore: Elisabeth Ginger Lily, Butterfly Ginger, White Ginger Lily, Garland Flower, White Ginger, Ginger Lily, Gandasuli, 姜花 (Cultivated in Singapore)
White garland-lily is a upright perennial ginger from forest understoreys of Asia, grown for its strongly fragrant white flowers with yellow bases. It thrives in warm, humid, subtropical conditions with rich, moist soil and partial shade.
Hedychium coronarium, the white garland-lily or white ginger lily, is a perennial flowering plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to the forest understorey of Asia.
Other common names include butterfly lily, Khumpui, fragrant garland flower, Indian garland flower, white butterfly ginger lily, and white ginger.
It is cultivated in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the world as an ornamental. In China it is cultivated for use in medicine and production of aromatic oil, due to the strong characteristic fragrance of the flowers, said to be reminiscent of jasmine.
In the UK, it has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
It is native to the Eastern Himalayas of India (Sikkim and Tripura), Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, through northernmost Myanmar and Thailand, southern China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong) to Taiwan in the East.
The flower buds and young flowers are edible. The rhizomes of the plant are used to derive essential oils due to their monoterpenoids and sesquiterpenoids compounds.
Red Ginger Lily · Cream garland-lily · Kahila garland-lily · Garland-lily
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedychium coronarium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
