Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb.

Species

Angiosperms > Zingiberales > Zingiberaceae > Curcuma

Characteristics

A herb in the ginger family. It grows 40-150 cm high. The underground rhizome is large and branched. It is 16 cm long by 3 cm wide. It is grey on the outside. The tips are white or pink. It is blue inside. The leaves are strap-shaped. The flowers are in a dense cylinder shaped group on a stalk from the base. The flowers are tube shaped and pink. The fruit is a narrowly oval capsule. The seeds have a fleshy layer around them.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.7 - 1.25
Root system rhizome
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in limestone areas. It grows in grassy places and teak forests up to 750 m above sea level. In Queen Sirikit BG.
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Rainforests, where it is often found on riverbanks or forest margins; grassy places and teak forest at elevations of 400-750 metres.
Light -
Soil humidity -
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Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The young tips are eaten. The rhizomes are used as a spice.
Uses dye food material medicinal spice
Edible rhizomes roots shoots
Therapeutic use Cough (unspecified), Insanity (unspecified), Parturition (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Scurf (unspecified), Dermatosis (unspecified), Scabies (unspecified), Asthma (unspecified), Cathartics (unspecified), Diet, food, and nutrition (unspecified), Exanthema (unspecified), Hematologic diseases (unspecified), Mental disorders (unspecified), Postnatal care (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It can be grown from seeds or division of the rhizome.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Curcuma aeruginosa unspecified picture

Distribution

Curcuma aeruginosa world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Curcuma aeruginosa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID -
WFO ID wfo-0000365393
COL ID 32JXS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Curcuma aeruginosa