Hedychium coccineum
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Hedychium coccineum, also known as orange gingerlily, scarlet gingerlily, and orange bottlebrush ginger), is a species of flowering ginger. A native of Asia, it grows on the edge of forests and in mountain grasslands. Hedychium coccineumcan prefers partial sunshine, but can tolerate full sun. The flowers can range in colour from red to orange to almost yellow.
Tom Wood (horticulturalist) developed a number of varieties of Hedychium coccineum including aurantiacum, commercially known as "Orange Bush" or "Flaming Torch", which grows to about 1.5 m. with two close ranks of waxy leaves. The flower spike has six rows of small orange flowers with 7 cm. orange stamens radiating outward.
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Tom Wood's dwarf variety of Hedychium coccineum has been sold under the name 'Orange Brush' not 'Orange Bush' as stated in the article. It has also been sold under the name 'Disney' since the plant was originally obtained Dave Case from Diney World but since I didn't want to get into trademark problems with Disney I gave it the name Orange Brush due to it having six vertical rows of stamens projecting from the spike. See my wesite www.gingersgalore.com.
Also the image of H. coccineum shown is incorrect. This is an image of a mislabelled reprint of an unpublished painting from the collection of Roscoe's effects at 500 copies of which were sold by the Liverpool Botanic Garden to raise funds for the restoration of their conservatory. See www.palmhouse.org.uk. The plant illustrated is probably H. urophyllum.
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