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Hedychium coronarium - Butterfly ginger lily

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[[File:800px-Hedychium coronarium2.jpg|thumb|right|''suruli sugandhi'', ''Hedychium coronarium'']]
'''Hedychium coronarium''' is the National Flower of Cuba, where it is known as mariposa (literally "butterfly") due to its shape. Women used to adorn themselves with these fragrant flowers in Spanish colonial times; because of the intricate structure of the inflorescence, women hid and carried secret messages important to the independence cause under it.[1] The plant has become wild in the cool rainy mountains in Sierra del Rosario, Pinar del Rio Province in the west, Escambray Mountains in the center of the island, and in Sierra Maestra in the very west of it.
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