Plant's Details

Scientific Name
Zingiber zerumbet L.
Category
Angiosperms
Created on Date
2024-09-24 07:47:33
Common Name
Shampoo Ginger, Wild Ginger
Synonym(s)
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Family
Zingiberaceae
Status
Live
Description

Rootstock large, hard, yellow inside, with strong aromatic ginger like taste. Leaves sessile, oblong, acuminate, glabrous, base narrowed. Flowering axis long, clothed with obtuse sheaths. Flowers pale yellow, bracts 2.5-3 cm long, ovate-oblong. Corolla tube 3 cm long, lobes ovate-lanceolate, lip shorter than corolla lobes, trifid. Capsules ellipsoid.