Curcuma purpurascens Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Zingiberales > Zingiberaceae > Curcuma

Characteristics

A ginger family herb. It grows 60 cm tall. The rhizomes are pale yellow and have an aroma. The leaves are broadly sword shaped with a purple colour along the mid vein. The flowers are in dense spikes 20 cm long. These are cylinder shaped on a stalk from the base. The flowers are tube shaped and 3 cm long. They are white with a yellow centre.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.68
Root system rhizome
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in teak forest up to 200 m above sea level.
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Teak forests.
Light -
Soil humidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses food material medicinal
Edible rhizomes shoots tubers
Therapeutic use Boil (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Scabies (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Itch (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown by division of the rhizome.
Mode seedlings
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Images

Curcuma purpurascens unspecified picture

Identifiers

LSID -
WFO ID wfo-0000365946
COL ID 32K3B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 632892
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Synonyms

Curcuma purpurascens