Description
Medicinal Parts
The
medicinal parts are the dried, tuberous rhizomes cut into slices.
Flower and Fruit
The
inflorescence is large; it is purple or crimson. The corolla has a red margin.
Otherwise it is very similar to Curcuma domesticate.
Leaves, Stem, and Root
The plant is
a 1.75 m high, leafy perennial. The leaves are in long, thin sheaths on the
rhizome. The leaf blades are broadly lance late or oblong and have a narrow,
purple mark on the midrib. The main rhizome is thickened like a tuber, ovate,
the size of a fist with numerous roots, and thin lateral rhizomes. The roots
terminate partially in ovate tubers.
Habitat
Curcuma is
indigenous to the forests of Indonesia and the Malaysian peninsula. It is
cultivated mainly on Java, in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Production
Japanese
turmeric consists of the sliced, dried, tuberous rhizomes of Curcuma
xanthorrhiza. Curcuma is cultivated and harvested in the second year of
growth. After the rhizome has been washed, the main thick root is isolated, cut
and dried at a temperature of 50ÂșC.
Not to be confused with
The rhizome
of Curcuma domesticates.
Other Names
Tewon Lawa,
Temu Lawak
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