What kind of plant is the ginger lily? Get to know this herbaceous flower

Other names for the ginger lily

The ginger lily is also known as butterfly ginger, butterfly flower, yehansu, fragrant snow flower, ginger orchid, spike-flowered kaempferia, turmeric, and more.

Morphological characteristics of the ginger lily

The stems of the ginger lily can reach up to two meters tall. Its leaves are lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, about 20-40 cm long, tapering to a point at the tip, acute at the base, with a smooth and glossy leaf surface, bearing a ligule 2-3 cm long.

The flowers at the top grow in an orderly arrangement, oval in shape , about less than 20 cm long; the bracts are ovate, with each bract bearing about 3 flowers; the obcordate labellum is about 6 cm long and wide.

The filaments are about 3 cm long, and the anther cells are about 1.5 cm long.

The flower language of the ginger lily

Keep memories in summer forever.

It is the guardian flower of Cancer, the happiness of home life.

Native to India, it lives only one day, falling like a butterfly.

Its fragrance is refreshing, and all gorgeous colors fade away.

From love to affection: the best state of loving someone is to keep the memory in summer.

Such is life, encountering a specific you at a specific time; perhaps this is the happiness of life.

Loving the flower's tranquility, its aloofness from the world, and for this, having a special fondness.