100% different than my 'White Butterfly' ginger, Kate. My stalks have to be around 6' tall and it will be mid-summer, before blooms begin. All my ginger are now breaking ground and I am shipping my first rhizomes out today in fact. This is the best time to dig and transplant or ship these rhizomes since you can tell how many shoots will come from a given rhizome and also tell which rhizomes won't sprout at all. Winter kills a few rhizomes every year.