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| + | Curcuma (Arabic name). Zingiberaceae. Curious and showy warmhouse herbaceous plants with great spikes of large concave or hooded bracts, from which the flowers scarcely protrude. | ||
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| + | Erect herbs, the st. rising to 10 ft. from a thick tuberiferous rootstock: lvs. usually large: fls. in a dense cone like thyrse, borne behind concave or hooded imbricacated obtuse often colored bracts; calyx and corolla tubular, the former 2-3-toothed, the latter dilated above and with 5 ovate or oblong lobes; staminodium petal-like, 3-parted, the middle lobe anther-bearing: fr. inclosed by the bracts. The latest monograph, 1904 (by Schumann in Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 20), recognizes 42 species, mostly in Trop. Asia and some in Trop. Afr. The fleshy bracts are perhaps the showiest feature of the plant, the topmost ones being colored with gorgeous tropical hues. Rhizomes of some of the species yield East India arrowroot, while others furnish turmeric. The rhizome of C. zedoaria of India is very pungent and has properties similar to ginger. The genus is allied to Alpinia and Amomum. | ||
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| + | In spring the tubers should be deprived of last year's mold and repotted in a fresh mixture of light loam, leaf- mold and turfy peat, the pots being well drained, and placed in a warm pit or frame in bottom heat. Water should be given sparingly until after the plant has made some growth. The young roots are soft and succulent, and are likely to rot if the soil remains wet for a long time. After flowering, the leaves soon show signs of decay, and water should be gradually withdrawn. During the resting period the soil should not be allowed to get dust-dry, or the tubers | ||
| + | are likely to shrivel. The plants are propagated by dividing the tubers in spring. | ||
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Curcuma (Arabic name). Zingiberaceae. Curious and showy warmhouse herbaceous plants with great spikes of large concave or hooded bracts, from which the flowers scarcely protrude. Erect herbs, the st. rising to 10 ft. from a thick tuberiferous rootstock: lvs. usually large: fls. in a dense cone like thyrse, borne behind concave or hooded imbricacated obtuse often colored bracts; calyx and corolla tubular, the former 2-3-toothed, the latter dilated above and with 5 ovate or oblong lobes; staminodium petal-like, 3-parted, the middle lobe anther-bearing: fr. inclosed by the bracts. The latest monograph, 1904 (by Schumann in Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 20), recognizes 42 species, mostly in Trop. Asia and some in Trop. Afr. The fleshy bracts are perhaps the showiest feature of the plant, the topmost ones being colored with gorgeous tropical hues. Rhizomes of some of the species yield East India arrowroot, while others furnish turmeric. The rhizome of C. zedoaria of India is very pungent and has properties similar to ginger. The genus is allied to Alpinia and Amomum. In spring the tubers should be deprived of last year's mold and repotted in a fresh mixture of light loam, leaf- mold and turfy peat, the pots being well drained, and placed in a warm pit or frame in bottom heat. Water should be given sparingly until after the plant has made some growth. The young roots are soft and succulent, and are likely to rot if the soil remains wet for a long time. After flowering, the leaves soon show signs of decay, and water should be gradually withdrawn. During the resting period the soil should not be allowed to get dust-dry, or the tubers are likely to shrivel. The plants are propagated by dividing the tubers in spring.
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