White ginger lily
ಸೌಗಂಧಿಕಾ ಪುಷ್ಪगुलबकावलीകല്യാണസൗഗന്ധികം
Hedychium coronarium J.Koenig
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.4 m
- wide
- 1.0 m
Zingiberaceae
Also called Butterfly ginger lily, White ginger, White Ginger Lily, Ginger-Lily, White garland-lily
Formerly Amomum filiforme, Gandasulium coronarium, Gandasulium lingulatum, Hedychium album, and 5 more
When it flowers
Flowers December to September in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian Subcontinent to TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.9 m to 2.9 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 2.5–4 m; NC State Extension 4–6 ft
- Spread
- 81 cm to 1.2 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 2–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -11.4 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -5 °C; NC State Extension -17.8 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Cape leadwortFlowers October to November, when this does not
Cotton RosemallowFlowers October to November, when this does not
Crimson bottlebrushFlowers October to November, when this does not
JacarandaFlowers October to November, when this does not
LantanaFlowers October to November, when this does not
Mexican petuniaFlowers October to November, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Jazmín, Heliotropo, Caña de ámbar
- Portuguese
- Lírio-do-brejo, Adália, Adalha
- Chinese
- 野薑花, 穗花山奈, 薑花
- Japanese
- ハナシュクシャ, シュクシャ
- Thai
- มหาหงส์
- Indonesian
- Gandasuli
- root
- lavann, Bunga Ncole
- Chinese (China)
- 姜花
- Swedish
- doftviska
- Korean
- 꽃생강
- Russian
- Гедихиум увенчанный
- Afrikaans
- Witgemmerlelie
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Hedychium coronarium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.