Hedychium coronarium
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Read about Hedychium coronarium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Hedychium coronarium. Koenig. Three to 6 ft.: lvs. canna-like, green, pointed, smooth above, hairy beneath: fls. very large (3-4 in. across), long-tubed, pure white or the lip sometimes blotched green, the 3 outer segms. narrow, the lip large and erect and more or less lobed. Trop. Asia, and naturalized hi some parts of Trop. Amer. B.M. 708. L.B.C. 6:507.—Handsome and worthy. Needs warm quarters. Said to have been sold as Myrosma carnsefolia, but that name belongs to a wholly different plant.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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