Common name: Orange Ginger lily, Orange ginger • Manipuri: Takhellei angangba
Botanical name: Hedychium aurantiacum Family: Zingiberaceae (ginger family)
Orange Ginger lily is a plant found in the Himalayas which
produces beautiful orange bottle-brush like spikes of orange flowers. Flowers
are very showy, bright orange-red, many in a long upright spike up to a foot
long, each with a long-projecting stamen. The stamen has bright red filament,
twice as long as the linear petals. Leaves are sheathing at the base, with
long lance-shaped blade, 5-8 cm broad and up to 45 cm long. Stem can grow to 2
m. Orange Ginger lily is found growing wild in the Himalayas and in the NE
India, at altitudes of 450-2000 m. Flowering: July-August.
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