Hedychium gardnerianumSheph. ex Ker Gawl.

Kahili ginger

WFO wfo-0000435987 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. a Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 198431076
Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. b Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198430845
Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. c Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198419763
Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. d Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198431327
Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. e Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198431410
Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. f Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198418618
Hedychium gardnerianum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. g Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198430815

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Flowering n = 449 observations

Peak flowering in Feb, from 449 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hedychium gardnerianum var. fasciatum K.Koch

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.