Phil Savoie / Green-crowned brillian hummingbird (Heliodoxa jacula) visiting Torch ginger flower (Etlingera elatior), Poas Volcano National Park Costa Rica

Felis Images / Little spiderhunter (Arachnothera longirostra) perched on Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) Kerala, India.

Ernie Janes / Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) Thailand.

Phil Savoie / Green-crowned brilliant hummingbird (Heliodoxa jacula) visiting Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior), Poas Volcano National Park Costa Rica

Phil Savoie / Green-crowned brillian hummingbird (Heliodoxa jacula) visiting Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior), Poas Volcano National Park Costa Rica

Phil Savoie / Green-crowned brillian-t hummingbird (Heliodoxa jacula) visiting Torch ginger flower (Etlingera elatior), Poas Volcano National Park Costa Rica

John Cancalosi / Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) portrait of flower, Costa Rica

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera sp) flower, Papua, Indonesia

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) introduced species, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Martin Gabriel / Flower of a Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior), a frequently planted ornamental plant in Costa Rica, February

Ingo Arndt / Torch Ginger (Nicolaia elatior) flower, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Torch Ginger (Nicolaia elatior) flower, Costa Rica

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Saw-billed hermit hummingbird (Ramphodon naevius) on Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) flower in the Atlantic Rainforest, municipality of Ubatuba, littoral of Sao Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil.

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera brevilabrum) flower, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera rubromarginata) flower, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera velutina) flower and bud, Kubah National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Tim Laman / Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior) flower, native to Indonesia, growing in a garden in Indonesia.

Chien Lee / Plain-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malacensis) male on flower of Helani Tulip Torch Ginger (Etlingera hemisphaerica), Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera sessilanthera) flower, Malaysia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior) flower, Asia

Jouan & Rius / Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) flower, botanical garden, Costa Rica

David Welling / Torch lily {Etlingera elatior} St Lucia

Pete Oxford / Torch ginger flower {Etlingera elatior}, Trinidad

Martin Gabriel / Waxflower {Etlingera sp} Pangrango-Gede NP, Java

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera brevilabrum) flowers, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Ginger (Etlingera velutina) flower, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia