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Curcuma zanthorrhiza, known as temulawak, Java ginger, Javanese ginger, or Javanese turmeric is a plant species, belonging to the ginger family. [2] It is known in Javanese as temulawak , in Sundanese as koneng gede (or big yellow) and in Madurese as temu labak . [ 2 ]
The leaves are found in colonies or clusters as the rhizome spreads, forming mats. [3] The leaves emit a ginger aroma when rubbed. [ 4 ] Blooming from April to July (about a month earlier in British Columbia ), [ 4 ] the flower sits at the end of a 15 cm (6 in) leafstalk, often on the ground, hidden by the leaves. [ 5 ]
The prostrate stems are 10–15 centimetres (3.9–5.9 in) long, each bearing two reniform leaves with long petioles. The leaves are about 10 cm wide. The upper surface of the leaves is shiny, and they have a pepper-like taste and smell. There are also 2 to 3 stipules present that occur in two rows opposite each other on the stem.
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Two leaves emerge each year from the growing tip. The curious jug-shaped flowers, which give the plant an alternate name, little jug, are borne singly in spring between the leaf bases. Wild ginger can easily be grown in a shade garden, and makes an attractive groundcover. Asarum europaeum flower
The word galangal, or its variant galanga or archaically galingale, can refer in common usage to the aromatic rhizome of any of four plant species in the Zingiberaceae (ginger) family, namely: Alpinia galanga, also called greater galangal, lengkuas, Siamese ginger or laos; Alpinia officinarum, or lesser galangal
Zingiberaceae (/ ˌ z ɪ n dʒ ɪ b ɪ ˈ r eɪ s i. iː /) or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species [4] of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
The simple leaves are entire and spirally arranged, with those toward the base of the stem usually bladeless. Leaf bases have a closed sheath with a ligule , or projection at the top of the sheath. Costaceae is different from the other families of Zingiberales in that its species have 5 fused staminodes , rather than 2 or 3, and the Costaceae ...