Common name: Kahili ginger lily

This flowering herb is a relative of ginger native to the foothills of the Himalayas, with a natural range that extends from Bhutan to India and Nepal. A shade-loving species, it prefers moist, forest understory environments and has a clumping habit, sending out underground rhizomes which colonising new ground and and sprout slender stems. The stems are usually 1 to 2 meters tall at their highest and ... .

Use: It has a history of cultivation in moist, shaded gardens where it serves as groundcover and is appreciated for its lush, ginger-like foliage and sweetly fragrant flowers. The flowering stems can be cut for floral arrangements.

Climate: Grows and flowers naturally in moderately humid to humid subtropical and mid- to high-elevation tropical climates, generally in areas with annual lows of 10 to 16 °C, annual highs of 20 to 25 °C, annual rainfall of 1200 to 3500 mm and a dry season ....

Growing: In areas where it native or not considered an invasive threat, new plants are usually grown from...

Problem features: It is assessed as a high weed risk species for Hawaii by the Hawaii Pacific Weed Risk Assessment project (HPWRA) and is recorded as a major weed species of the moist, forested mountain areas of eastern Jamaica, above 900 meters elevation.