Zingiber longyanjiang seed

LATIN NAME: Zingiber longyanjiang

COMMON NAME: Longyanjiang Ginger

The longyanjiang ginger is a handsome, upright, leafy, perennial herb of the warm, moist places, and its fine, long, lance-shaped, glossy leaves and its dense, cone-like heads of the small, yellow or yellowish-green flowers with the fine, coloured bracts have made it a treasured and fine plant of the warm garden. It grows as an upright, leafy, perennial herb, reaching up to two metres or more, with the upright, leafy, cane-like stems rising from the creeping root-stock and bearing the alternate, long, lance-shaped, pointed, glossy leaves and, through the warm months, the dense, cone-like, terminal heads of the small, yellow or yellowish-green flowers with the fine, coloured bracts, followed by the small, round, fleshy capsules of the few seeds. It is a species of the flowering plant in the ginger family, and it is native to the warm, moist places of the southern China, while it is grown as a treasured ornamental and a fine ginger, and it is known as the longyanjiang ginger.

In the ginger family it is the cone-headed ornamental of the warm, moist garden, a plant that carries both the family spice and the family flower show.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The longyanjiang ginger holds a place in the flavour-science papers of the gingers, where the aromatic roots are studied for the volatile oils behind the fine spice of the world, and the food chemists keep the family in their programmes. The botanists have mapped its place in the ginger family and the warm, moist places of the southern China, and the horticulturists have grown the cone-headed, bracted form for the warm garden. It is a plant that gives the kitchen and the garden in one, and the growers of the ornamental gingers keep it in their collections.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm, shaded border, the longyanjiang ginger is the bold, leafy tower of the tropical garden. Its cone-like heads of the yellow flowers feed the bees, the broad, glossy leaves give the border a lush, generous presence, and the aromatic root-stock serves the fine cooking of the region. It grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground of the sheltered, half-shaded spot. Yellow, cone-headed and aromatic.

The seeds ask for warmth and steady moisture — sow them at a shallow depth in pots of rich, moist, free-draining compost, keep the pots warm and evenly damp in a sheltered, half-shaded spot, and the first shoots will come up steadily.