Hedychium thyrsiforme

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Hedychium thyrsiforme, Hamilton. Usually 5 ft. tall: IS. sometimes 1 ft. long and 3-4 in. wide, finely hairy and pale beneath: spike very dense, the lower empty bracts ovate, the upper and fl.-bearing cylindric, green, about 1 ½ in.; corolla-tube not much longer than the bract, its segms. linear, white; lip distinctly clawed. Trop. Himalaya. B.R. 767 (as H. heteromallum).—Not much known, but advertised (1914) by Montarioso Nursery.

Cultivation

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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