Eloise - Sorry I cannot help with an ID, I have one small butterfly ginger that is starting to come up right now. Can't wait to see it bloom. I would like to have some of your ginger for postage whenever you get ready to do this please let me know.

TIA

Rigo

It would be hard to tell without seeing the bloom.. I would like some as well tho.. I love Gingers..I have some Spiral and Hidden ginger I could trade ya for it or postage.. Mine is still dormant. I just pulled it out from under the house a few weeks ago and haven't got it planted yet...
Kylie

Sorry I can't help..I have never grown ginger...If you have extras I would love to try one..Thanks

Thats pretty much what my white butterfly ginger looks like but I don't think there is a way to know for sure til they bloom and mine don't bloom til very late in the fall so not sure about yours.

Rigo, Kylie and Carmie, send me your address to luera_2001@yahoo.com. Also, do you want this priority mail or 1st class (don't know what your weather is like, but my car registered 97 today!).

Hey Eloise if you have any extra starts of your ginger I'd love to be on the receiving end of some. I have one tiny ginger and I have no ideal what it's name is. LOL

Thanks in advance, Marian

Eloise if there is someone else out there that doesn't have any and wants it send it to them instead of me.. I have some Gingers..Thanks for offering it...
Kylie

That looks very similar to all my butterfly ginger foliage but they get to about 6+'. It doesn't look anything like my edible ginger foliage though. I think you'll have to wait until it blooms for a positive ID.
Karyn

Eloise: Funny you posted re ginger. I just picked some up at the super market to try to plant. Have never grown flowering ginger, so if any pieces left please add me to your list. Hope all is well with you. Regards, Gloria

Gloria the edible kind from the grocery doesn't bloom but it's a pretty plant and has a wonderful scent. I was at the Korean market today and picked up some whole fresh ginsing roots that I'm going to try and grow.
Karyn

It totally sucks sometimes living in the country.. I have no access to anything.. Okay maybe the feed store..WOOHOO!! I would have to drive over an hour to find any type of Asian store.. BTW Karyn thanks for the Lemon Grass ..It is doing wonderful and I love to cook with it...even tho I hate to cook!!!LOL Be sure to let me know if you can get the Ginsing going I would love to give that a try..My SIL lives in town.. She will be back from Hawaii sometime next month.. I can run up to visit and get her to take me to the BIG CITY...LOL

Marian, send me your address for the ginger.

Kylie, I have plenty; stop looking out so much for others, and get something for yourself, lol! Isn't lemon grass wonderful and so easy to grow! I do a tea with mine sometimes.

Karyn, I am leaning more towards cardamom ginger because just read up that only the flower of the butterfly has a scent where cardamom ginger's leaves and root have a cardamom scent.

Gloria, I'll get you some. BTW, it's very easy to grow the edible ginger. Plant it where some of it is showing, i.e., don't bury the entire rhizome.

Kylie, I have an asian store here if there is anything you are looking for let me know and I'll see if they have it. Its not a huge store but there is a giant one the next town over. I just don't get over to that one often. My ginger root doesn't smell, only the flowers so maybe it is something other than butterfly.

That's one nice thing about living in the DC suburbs. You name it and we have it. lol It's such a multi-cultural region. Because of the government, the embassies, NIH, John's Hopkins, etc there's people from all over the world living nearby. The blooms of the butterfly ginger small great, nothing like ginger but the foliage does have a scent if crushed. The butterfly ginger isn't a true ginger if I'm not mistaken. Kylie if there's something you want me to pick up let me know. I'll let you know how the ginsing does. One of the roots already has a little bit of green sprouting. I'm going to start them in pots. If they grow I'll have to figure out where I can plant them. I think they like being in the woods around the base of big oak trees or something like that. Too bad I only have little ornamental flowering trees in my yard. lol
Karyn

AWWWWW! Thanks Ya'll.. I need to get up off my BA and go to town..LOL We have a Central Market kinda like Harry's Farmer's Market for ya'll in GA!!!LOL that carries anything and everything...I just hate going anywhere .. I always create a good time while I am there...LOL but getting out of the gate is a challenge for me..AND NO not becoz I don't know how!! It just takes the whole day to go do anything...LOL
My Fav Ginger is Cinnamon Scented Ginger.. It is a slow poke but smells amazing! It hasn't ever bloomed tho..

LAST CALL for ginger, will be mailing out tomorrow. I have Rigo, Carmie and Marian (and later Gloria). This ginger was i.d. as Alpinia nutans and in my search found it aka as false cardamom or dwarf cardamon.

I was going to guess cardamom. It has a very distinctive smell. Here on the Gulf coast it is not a heavy bloomer. Mine has 1 bloom shoot and one around the corner has about 4. The flowers are white with a yellow throat, very pretty, but not very fragrant or long-lived. It can grow to about 6' but usually I see it between 3-4'. Morning or evening sun, protect it in the middle of the day, it will grow in fairly deep shade. It has much smaller rhizomes than a lot of the gingers, like the alpinia zerumbut, so it is much easier to dig out.
Ya'll will enjoy this ginger. I don't think it is hardy past zone 8 but it will grow fine in a pot. Plant it along a pathway, then you can enjoy the smell as it is fragrant when you brush against it.
Tally HO!

Just wanted to send a BIG TEXAS HUG to eloise for the woderful ginger you sent out to me.They arrived today safe and sound to their new home. Again Thank you so much!!!!

By the way when I opened the package, the smell was amazing.

Rigo:0)

Hey Rigo, you are so welcome. I had hoped you would get a blast of that scent from the ginger!

I have some butterfly ginger that hasnt bloomed after 2 years. It is in pots. Do I need to move to just morning sun and not in direct sun? Any help would be gladly accepted. Thanks Judy

It might need to be divided or feed it more. It will grow here in pretty much full sun but can get sunburned if it doesn't get a little afternoon shade. Mine doesn't bloom til late fall early winter so maybe you don't have a long enough season? Maybe needs a bigger pot. I had mine in a huge pot and it was rootbound in two years.

will give some afternoon shade and see if they are root bound. Usually doesnt freeze until late oct. So should be long enough and I drag them inside so they start growing early. Thanks Judy

I have peach and white butterfly ginger in containers. The peach is in full sun, white in PM shade. Both are root bound but bloom beautifully at the end of the summer. The peach didn't bloom until the winter the first year I had it but it bloomed just fine inside. The only problem was the height, over 6'. I feed them infrequently, maybe every 6-8 weeks.
Karyn