Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Roscoe ex Sm.

-o =o
9	N* < W	N	g!		
**	ui h* a	»-*•			
f*	f-»	3	VO		
	B M &	05	On		
&	• 09 O	h*	Ip		
K*	cn h*	o*	-fs*		
«3	P9 CD DO	CD			
a n	H* • c+			M	
M	c+			m ft	
3	•-b	N		i	
	m O	CD		1 ©	
	H* »1				
	CD CD	g			2
	• CO c+	&			o* 3
	4	CD		a	P
	-p-H* H*	c+		n X S	e M*
	O c+ B	»		S’	
	I-4 CD H*	O		ft	S'
	O * •	CD		JB	»
	p*	O		S	
	- CD Ch •	O CD		• B* 0	l
	0)			V	
	D O			3	
	• H>			d ?	
	M >			d	
	ro h*			3	
	* o				
	H>				
	M (-*•				
	VO				
	&				&
	tor
	Oi
	
	tO
	C*
H	X
P	m
	50
	CD
C	>
z Q	2
	c
5	s
Zingiber Zerumbet (Linnaeus) Smith, Exot. Bot. 2:103, pi. 112, 1804.
Herbaceous plant with pubescent, leafy branches rising to about 1 m. tall from a
thickened, fleshy rhizome. Leaves 2-ranked, alternate, entire, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate,
acuminate, pubescent beneath, up to about 30 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, clasping stem at
base. Flowers white or pale yellow, in a large, bracteate, conelike spike at top of a leafless
shoot up to about 30 cm. tall, bracts rounded, overlapping.
Common throughout, especially in clearings where it often forms a dense
ground cover (9614, 10183). The rhizomes are used in native medicines and
to flavor foods. The watery juice in the flower heads is sometimes used as a
hair shampoo. English name, wild ginger; native name, poloi.
04356066