| Rock Butterfly Ginger Lily |
|
 |
|
| File size | 1279717 |
| Original date | 7/10/21 2:05 PM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 2250 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.74mm |
| Exposure time | 1/363s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
| Focus Distance | |
| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 7S |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
 |
 ative |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Photo: |
Botanical name: Hedychium ellipticum Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Hedychium fastigiatum, Gandasulium ellipticum
Synonyms: Hedychium fastigiatum, Gandasulium ellipticum
Rock Butterfly Ginger Lily is a handsome perennial
plant with large strongly ribbed leaves and shaving-brush like large
flower clusters. Flowers are white or orange-yellow in a very dense
spike 8-10 cm long, with bright green ovate densely overlapping bracts.
Flowers are up to 7 cm, with narrow white petals and linear orange
staminodes. Fertile stamens with stout orange filament much longer than
the petals. Lip is white, oblong, notched at tip; flower-tube twice as
long as bracts. Leaves are oblong pointed 15-30 cm by 8-12 cm broad.
Stem is up to 1 m. Rock Butterfly Ginger Lily is found in forests,
shrubberies, on rocks, in the Himalayas, from Kashmir, Uttarakhand to
Bhutan, NE India, at altitudes of 300-3000 m. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Triveni Shukla | Photographed in Manju Khola, Mirik, WB. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,