Hedychium coronarium J.König
കല്യാണസൗഗന്ധികം
| Family: | ZINGIBERACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Butterfly Ginger Lily | ||||
| Synonym: | Hedychium chrysoleucum Hook. | ||||
| Common Name: | Not available | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | October-December | ||||
| Distribution: | Widely cultivated and naturalised in the tropics | ||||
| Habitat: | Moist deciduous forests, also grown as garden plant | ||||
| Uses: | Young buds and flowers are steamed and eaten, or used as a flavouring. The seed is aromatic, carminative and stomachic. The root is antirheumatic, excitant and tonic. The ground rhizome is used as a febrifuge. An essential oil from the roots is carminative and has anthelmintic indications. A decoction of the basal part of the stem is gargled in the treatment of tonsillitis, or, alternatively, a part of the stem may be chewed. An essential oil obtained from the flowers of this species, and other members of the genus, is valued in high grade perfumes. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Herbs, leafy stem, robust, densely clumped; rhizome horizontal. Leaves oblong, acuminate. Spike ovoid; bracts oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Flowers 2-4 in each bracts. Calyx not split, glabrous. Corolla tube narrow, glabrous, lobes slender, glabrous. Lip lobes emarginate, white. | ||||