Etlingera elatior

Here’s to more flower buds to harvest | Penang Island

Oh wow 😍 how beautiful 💕 and plenty more to come 😋

Pls share how to get them flowering. Mine is two years old - big huge leaves but never flowered before. Thx

The rainy weather has been kind to the Torch Gingers | Penang Island

Beautiful flowers 😍 do they smell gingery?

@kez001uk unfortunately they don’t have much of a scent to them.

@justinkhoo good thing they’re so pretty then 😛

One of the garden staples, Etlingera elatior. While these blooms come up to about waist/chest height, the leaves can grow to 15 feet tall! We use the flower buds in our local cuisine as they have a distinctive fragrance | Penang Island

Fascinating