2024 Southeastern Plant Symposium Auction
554 - Hedychium deceptum
Plant
Closed
Current Bid: $60
(Pot Sz: 3 qt.)
Common name: Red Hardy GInger Lily
¤ deciduous perennial to 36"
¤ plant in sun
¤ hardy to zone 8a
¤ vermillion orange flowers in late summer
¤ attracts pollinators, attracts butterflies, deer resistant
Hedychium deceptum is a little-known ginger from the Meghalaya/Naga Hills region of India, where it can be found between 1,500' and 4,500' elevation. Despite being discovered in the early 1920's by UK plantsman H.J. Elwes, it had never been commercialized until a recent introduction by US ginger guru, Tim Chapman. Hedychium deceptum shares the same bright, screaming orange red colored flowers with the better known Hedychium greenii. Our plants, growing in half day sun, produce stout 3' tall clumps of corn-like dark green foliage. Starting for us in early August and continuing through October, the foliage is just topped with stocky flower heads composed of dark burgundy bracts, which hold the vermillion orange flowers!
Common name: Red Hardy GInger Lily
¤ deciduous perennial to 36"
¤ plant in sun
¤ hardy to zone 8a
¤ vermillion orange flowers in late summer
¤ attracts pollinators, attracts butterflies, deer resistant
Hedychium deceptum is a little-known ginger from the Meghalaya/Naga Hills region of India, where it can be found between 1,500' and 4,500' elevation. Despite being discovered in the early 1920's by UK plantsman H.J. Elwes, it had never been commercialized until a recent introduction by US ginger guru, Tim Chapman. Hedychium deceptum shares the same bright, screaming orange red colored flowers with the better known Hedychium greenii. Our plants, growing in half day sun, produce stout 3' tall clumps of corn-like dark green foliage. Starting for us in early August and continuing through October, the foliage is just topped with stocky flower heads composed of dark burgundy bracts, which hold the vermillion orange flowers!
