Ginger – Kencur – Kaempferia galanga

Plant family: Zingiberaceae

Plant origin: South East Asia.

Fruit description:

Flowers: Kencur has pretty purple and white orchid-like flowers, that appear daily through the warm months.

Growing conditions: Kencur is a hardy, perennial plant that grows to about 50cm high. It grows in any warm climate, and goes dormant in winter. It likes plenty of water in the growing seasons, little or none in Winter. Let your Kencur plants clump and harvest the rhizomes as you need them. Kencur Gingers grow well in pots.

Uses: Kencur is used in Asian cooking. Use the fleshy rhizome in cooking, it has a mild aroma and a subtle flavour. It is used in Thai and Indonesian foods such as sambals, tomato sambal, curries, Balinese cuisine, and soups.

Medicinal uses: Kencur is widely used in traditional medicines in many Asian cultures.

Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating.

Harvest time You can harvest the edible fleshy rhizome or underground stem of Kencur anytime.

Plant relatives Common Ginger;Cape York Lily;Red Torch Ginger;White Fragrant Ginger;Turmeric;Galangal;Katchai

Special features: In the ginger family there are about 20 species which are edible.

Grown by method: Root Division Pot size: 100mm

Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 0.5 metres high by 0.5 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 0.5 metres high by 0.5 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.

Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: 100mm