Ginger, Blue Turmeric
- Product number: 831568.1
- Origin: South Asia
- Latin: Curcuma aeruginosa
This special ginger blooms beautifully, usually before the leaves appear, with soft pink flowers emerging from the typical ginger 'club'. The plant can grow quite large: the enormous leaves have a beautiful blackish-purple main vein, and the plant can reach up to 2 m in height! The tuber flesh is blue in color and, of course, edible, but in the tropics, this ginger is primarily used as a widely effective medicine: anti-inflammatory!
Names:
Latin: Curcuma aeruginosa
Dutch: Gember, Blauwe Turmeric
Also known as: Blauwe kurkuma
English: Blue Turmeric
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- Flower colour: Soft pink flowers
- Average growth height: More than 120 cm
- Attractive to insects:
- Annual or perennial: Perennial
- Hardy: Not frost hardy
- Origin: South Asia
- Ease of cultivation: Advanced
- Latin: Curcuma aeruginosa
- Dutch: Ginger, Blue Turmeric
- Also known as: Blue turmeric
- English: Blue Turmeric
