Search Results for: Curcuma
aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical africa, asia, and the americas. many of the family's species are important ornamental , spice , or medicinal plants . ornamental genera include the shell gingers ( alpinia ), siam or summer tulip ( curcuma
( hedychium ), kaempferia , torch-ginger etlingera elatior , renealmia , and ginger ( zingiber ). spices include ginger ( zingiber ), galangal or thai ginger ( alpinia galanga and others), melegueta pepper ( aframomum melegueta ), myoga (zingiber mioga), korarima (aframomum corrorima), turmeric ( curcuma...
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