Comments on: Curcuma – The Resurrection Plant

By: Hanna Ekawati

Hanna Ekawati — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:43:09 +0000

Kind of familiar traditional plant in our country, Indonesia. It is called: Curcumae Xanthorhizae Rhizoma. Grow up very easily without any attention, especially during dry season.
Has been used as traditional medicine, especially for liver, even local medical doctors admit this curcuma to be very good and helpful for liver problems.
I have my own testimony that my SGOT/SGPT was high and I was cured only because I drank curcuma extract powder periodically.
Anybody need it in capsulized extract powder for maintaining liver’s health, please e mail me. The stuff is very cheap in our country, but maybe the freight is not.

By: gayleen

gayleen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:26:23 +0000

The name of the nursery was Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay. It’s so beautiful! I tried keeping some bulbs from there but they got lost when I moved, maybe I will try to contact them and get some more along with some growing info and get back to you.

By: PINK Nurseries

PINK Nurseries — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:55:21 +0000

Am sure it is native plant of India and based on pictures (Flowers (pinkish) and purple mid-rib), it is called “Curcuma Caesia” or “Black Turmeric” and widely used Indian Medicinal Herb for several uses. You couldn’t post picture of its Rhizome, if so we can identify the plant very easily. You please check out its Rhizome, it is Bluish Black, smells like Pungent because of Camphor’s % in rhizome.

By: mary

mary — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:40:53 +0000

Hi Shaun,
You probably don’t need to do anything special to encourage these flowers to breed. They seem to do it on their own! They are bulb plants. You’ll see at the end of the foliage season that the leaves start to turn yellow and droop. You can at that point cut the leaves back. If you dig around a little, you’ll see the bulbs. Take some and plant them elsewhere. Then you’ll have the Curcuma reproducing at its original spot and also putting up new flowers at the new spot. If you don’t do this, you’ll find your original bed will just expand and expand and expand. Either way is fine.

Enjoy!

Mary

By: shaun

shaun — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:42:06 +0000

I just found a curcuma plant on my farm that I recently bought. Its a beautiful flower. I thought it was something special but its seems pretty common.

I know nothing about flowers. I live on a farm in the middle of colombia 1000m asl, 25 degrees and sunny all year round and lots of rain in the afternoons.

I would love to get more of these flowers, how can I encourage it to breed

By: mary

mary — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:19:25 +0000

Hello Brigida,

I’m sorry, but I do not know anything about curcuma’s requirements in a garden outside the tropics. You might try Dave’s Garden. You can ask them a gardening question and someone will likely know the answer!

Good luck.

Mary

By: brigida

brigida — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:36:30 +0000

i have a curcuma plant can i leave it outside. in the summer thank you

By: mary

mary — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:02:54 +0000

Thanks for the information, Bonnie. It's interesting that the people of India consider it a weed, but then, in many places the native plants are taken for granted, aren't they? Maybe I didn't make it clear, but I'm not absolutely certain that our Panamanian Curcuma is really C. zedoaria. That's just the closest I could come to an identification. Whether it's C. zedoaria or some cultivar of that species or something else all together, it does seem to do quite well in Panama, at least in our area.

By: Bonnie Williams

Bonnie Williams — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:17:03 +0000

Kristen Albrecht Llamas’s “Tropical Flowering Plants” indicates that the curcuma zedoaria is a native of India. She writes that it grows in zones 8-11 but notes: “Prefers the longer dormancy period at the cooler end of its range.”

By: mary

mary — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:33:05 +0000

Normally I would mark a comment like this as spam, but I have followed this site and I know that it is legitimate. I have abbreviated the original comment so that it is somewhat appropriate for this post.

Mary