Yellow Ginger

Description:

Cream-colored flower. Flowers in the midsummer to late autumn. The individual flowers emerge from between green bracts on the flower spikes. The flowers have 3 slender, linear, yellowish or greenish sepals and 3 spoon-shaped, yellow or cream petals. The 2 lower petals are opposite each other. There is yellow-orange at the base of the top, largest petal. The flowers wilt after one day.

Habitat:

The yellow ginger is native to the Himalayas.