2. Jiang Hua symbolizes simplicity. It stands upright, and a bud produces five or six white and yellow flowers. Each flower has three petals, just like a flying white butterfly, which gathers on the head of Hosta and sprays fragrance from morning till night. So Europe and America call ginger flower "butterfly lily".
Ginger flower is not a specialty of our country, but one of the foreign flowers introduced from abroad. Its hometown is the tropical areas of India and Malaysia. It was probably introduced to China in the Qing Dynasty. Some people don't know its origin, and think that ginger flowers are flowers that eat ginger. Actually, it is not. Although both of them are monocotyledonous plants and belong to Zingiberaceae, they belong to different genera. Ginger belongs to the genus Zingiber, and its rhizome can be used as seasoning. Plants are short, generally only 40-70 cm, and usually do not bloom. Most of the nutrition is used to grow ginger slices. Ginger flower is a kind of ginger plant, which is more than one meter high. Its rhizome is similar to canna, so it can't be eaten, so it is an ornamental flower. The leaves are lanceolate and wrapped directly on the stem. Each plant has about 12- 13 leaves. Both of them are "rivers don't invade well water" and each contributes to people's interests.