Botanical Name: Hedychium
spicatum.
Family Name: Zingiberaceae.
Common Name: Hedichium, kapur kachri. Part
Used: Rhizomes
Habitat: Mainly Grows in Sub steamy Himalayas.
Uses: it is basically used in Nausea, Bronchial
Asthma, Halitosis and Vomiting. And it is also useful in reduced
appetite, hiccups, local inflammation etc.
Similar species: The most common and familiar
spices of Hedychium categories is Hedychium flavescens.
Description: This species of Hedychium basically
from the Himalayas and it grows up to 6 ft (1.8 m) tall with
long; leaves are bright green clasping the tall branch.
This is the mainly widely refined species; it always prefers a
warm, hot and frost-free climate even though it will grow outside
of the temperate areas that have light simply, occasional frosts.
terminalia belerica | terminalia chebula | tinospor cordifolia | tribulus terrestris | valeriana wallichi | zingiber officinalis
The colors of plant flowers are fragrant red and creamy
yellow, held in opaque or thick spikes, emerge towards the
end of summer seasons.
This species is measured a weed in some places like in the
north side of New Zealand. Organism type: it is basically
herb type of organism.
This showy decorative or attractive ginger grows over a meter
tall in damp climates and grows as well from sea level to
an elevation of 1,700 meters.
It relocates inhabitant plants, forms enormous, dense colonies
and chokes the under story plants.
Habitat: Hedychium or Kahili ginger mainly grows
in open glow or bright environments requires a warm and hot moist
climate; on the other hand it will easily or readily grow in full
shade under a forest awning.
Culture: Hedychiums always requires the humus-rich,
wet or moist but well drained soil in a part-shaded location.
Occurs in: The Hedychiums is mainly found in different
and selective places such as agricultural areas, coastland, disturbed
or troubled areas, natural forests, planted forests, range or grasslands,
riparian zones, scrub or shrub lands, urban areas, swampland.