Hedychium deceptum Canna you'll just love this baby

you'll just love this baby

The plants

where it forms dense colonies in the well-drained forest soil

We love it both as a solitary specimen as well as in a massed planting

Despite enduring temperatures as low as 0 degrees F since the mid-1990s

Hedychium deceptum Canna you'll just love this baby(aka: Hedychium rubrum) Hedychium deceptum is a little known ginger from the Meghalaya Naga Hills region of India, where it can be found between 1,500' and 4,500' elevation. Despite being discovered in the early 1920's by UK plantsman H. J. Elwes, it had never been commercialized until a recent introduction by US ginger guru, Tim Chapman. Hedychium deceptum shares the same bright, screaming colored flowers with the better known Hedychium greenii. Our