Red Torch Ginger
~ Red Torch Ginger
Etlingera elatior
This is one of the world’s most splendid flowers. The torch itself has a large red head. It will give you one of the most brilliant flowers imaginable with a dazzling mass display of bracts in a bright red cone shape. The flower is borne on a leafless stem that arises straight out of the ground. Has a smooth textured, broad, dark green leaves. Its inflorescence makes like the Red Torch Ginger a good cut flower. When the flower has finished a decorative seed head spike remains. When mature, the torch ginger blooms all year round in the tropics.
