Turmeric is a form of shrubs and herbs is an annual (perennial) that
spread throughout the tropics. Turmeric plant grows wild around the forest and fertile / former garden. Turmeric comes from the sparkle is estimated at an altitude of 1300-1600 m above sea level, some are saying that turmeric comes from India.
Curcuma word derived from Arabic and Greek Kurkum Karkom. In 77-78 BC, Dioscorides called this plant as Cyperus like ginger, but bitter, chocolate, and a little spicy, but not toxic. Turmeric plant widely cultivated in South Asia especially in India, South China, Taiwan, Indonesia (Java), and the Philippines.
Turmeric plant grows to the height of 40-100 cm fork. Is the pseudo-stem trunks, upright, rounded, forming a rhizome with yellowish green color and is composed of leaf midrib (slightly soft).
Single leaf, oval shape (lanceolate) extends up to 10-40 cm, a width of 8 to 12.5 cm and pertulangan pinnate with a pale green color. Compound-interest-haired and scaly from the pseudo-stem shoots, 10-15 cm long with
crown about 3 cm and 1.5 cm wide, white / yellowish.
Tapered leaf tip and base, the edge of a flat leaf. The outer skin-colored rhizome
brownish orange, orange-red flesh yellowish.
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