Hedychium

In "Nature," June 22nd, 1876, page 173, Hermann Muller communicated F. Muller's observation on the fertilisation of a bright-red-flowered species of Hedychium, which is visited by

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

Hedychium gardnerianum is extraordinary when it catches you out at the beginning of September, the spidery flowers as exotic as you can imagine out in the open.

Summer podding 2010

Invasive species constitute an important threat, mainly at the lowest altitudes of laurisilva distribution, where species of Acacia, Hedychium gardnerianum and Pittosporum undulatum, Ailanthus altissima, and Acer pseudoplatanus are widely distributed.

Madeira evergreen forests 2008

Species such as the Kahili ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum) prevent the natural expansion of laurisilva on abandoned rural land.

Madeira evergreen forests 2008

The main weed species being targeted in Northland are wild ginger (Hedychium garderianum), cord grass (Spartina alterniflora), mistflower (Ageratina riparia), and wandering Jew (Tradescantia fluminensis).

Northland temperate kauri forests 2008

But then, of course, it would be confused with "ginger lily", for which SOED has: "any of various chiefly Indo-Malayan plants of the genus Hedychium, of the ginger family, grown for their spikes of showy fragrant flowers".

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Indigofera re-appeared, with Saccharum rubro nitens of Churra, the other grasses being Andropogons, 2-3, and Orthopogon, Hedychium, Gordonia soon re-appeared: to the east, cultivation was visible, and to the north,

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Hedychium is found on rocks on this slope, which would give an elevation of about 5,500 feet.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Hedychium, beautifully scented, occurring as an epiphyte.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Hedychium angustifolium I also observed on the road.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith