The wood ginger flower is a collective name for many categories of flowers. Dense-flowered ginger flower, sparse-flowered herbaceous fruit herbs, Tianlin ginger flower, silkless ginger flower, Guangxi ginger flower, red ginger flower, yellow ginger flower, etc. all belong to one type of wood ginger flower.

Dense-flowered ginger flower stems up to 1.2 meters high. Leaf blade oblong lanceolate, small flowers, light yellow, bloom in July. Distributed in Tibet, China. It is also found in Nepal. Born in the understory of mountain slopes, 2100-2300 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Sparing herbaceous fruiting herb stems up to 1 meter high. Leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate, flowers fragrant, white. bloom in August-October. Distributed in China Yunnan, Tibet; also distributed in Nepal. Born in forests, 2000-3200 meters.

Silkless ginger flower stems up to 1 m tall, slightly thickened at the base. Leaf blade oblong or linear-elliptic, flowers yellow, distributed in NW Yunnan, China; born under tropical rain forests; about 1800 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

The flowers of the yellow ginger flower open sequentially from bottom to top and are extremely beautiful. Under natural cultivation, each bract can have 3-5 flowers, and the flowering period of each branch is about 30 days long. Ginger flower is native to Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, India, born in the valley in the dense forest. Ginger flower by the Buddhist monasteries as "five trees and six flowers" in the "six flowers" one. The volatile oil of the flowers is aromatic and stomachic. The rhizome is used for cough.