Michael & Patricia Fogden / Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) hummingbird juvenile male feeding at and pollinating Ginger (Costus montanus) flowers, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Violet Sabre-wing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) hummingbird male at Ginger (Costus montanus) flowers, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Ginger (Zingiber officinale). Pencil and watercolor painting.

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 / Resurrection Lily (Kaempferia rotunda) flowers emerging from forest floor late in the dry season, Uthai Thani, Thailand

John Cancalosi / Shampoo Ginger (Zingiber zerumbet), a native of Asia but naturalized in Costa Rica and other Central American localities for medicinal use.

John Cancalosi / Shampoo Ginger (Zingiber zerumbet), a native of Asia but naturalized in Costa Rica and other Central American localities for medicinal use.

John Cancalosi / Shampoo Ginger (Zingiber zerumbet), a native of Asia but naturalized in Costa Rica and other Central American localities for medicinal use.

Christian Ziegler / Spiral Ginger (Costus pulverulentus) leaves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Spiral Ginger (Costus pulverulentus) flower, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

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

Chien Lee / Ginger (Zingiber kelabitianum) shoots with peduncles carrying inflorescence, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Ginger (Zingiber longipedunculatum) shoots with peduncles carrying inflorescence, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

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

Chien Lee / Cardamom (Amomum megalocheilos) flower, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Ginger (Zingiber spectabile) flowers, Royal Belum State Park, Perak, Malaysia

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

Tim Laman / Wild ginger plant (Zingiber sp) flowering in the lowland rainforest, Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, West Kalimantan, 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 / Ginger (Zingiber spectabile) flowers, Malaysia

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

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

Jose B. Ruiz / Tumeric roots {Curcuma longa} Spain

David Welling / Torch lily {Etlingera elatior} St Lucia

Rolf Nussbaumer / Kahili Ginger {Hedychium gardnerianum} flower spike, Alakai Swamp, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, August

Pete Oxford / Ginger (Zingiberaceae) flower in lowlands of western Ecuador

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

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, female in flight on flower of the ginger family(Zingiberaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, male in flight on flower of the ginger family(Zingiberaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, male in flight on flower of the ginger family(Zingiberaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Pete Oxford / Wild ginger {Zinger officinale} flowering, Amazonian Ecuador

Rolf Nussbaumer / Red ginger {Alpinia purpurata} in bloom, Frenchman's Cove, Port Antonio, Jamaica.

Pete Oxford / Wild ginger flower {Zingiberaceae} with visiting bee Madre de Dios rainforest, Peru Spouth America - Insect visit sequence 2/2

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Violet Sabre-wing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) hummingbird feeding on and pollinating Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger flowers, cloud forest, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Violet Sabre-wing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) hummingbird feeding on and pollinating Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger flowers, cloud forest, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) hummingbird feeding and pollinating Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger flowers, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus) hummingbird, feeding at and pollinating Ginger (Renealmia cernus) flowers, Wilson Gardens, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger in cloud forest understory, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Flat-headed Katydid (Lirometopum coronatum) on Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger rainforest, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Australian Ginger (Curcuma australasica) wet with rain, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Mark Moffett / Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma sp) protecting flower of Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger, Manu, Peru

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

Pete Oxford / Wild ginger flower {Zingiberaceae} Madre de Dios, rainforest, Peru, South America - Insect visit sequence 1/2

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

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

Christian Ziegler / Spiral Ginger (Costus pulverulentus) leaves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama