... commonly known as: canereed, crape ginger, crepe ginger, Malay ginger, spiral flag, spiral ginger, wild ginger • Gujarati: pakarmula • Hindi: keukand • Kannada: changalkashta, niraja, padmapatra • Malayalam: koshtam, pushkaramulam • Marathi: खंबारी khambari, पेव pev, शिवणी shivani, वागचवडा vagachavada, वागराटी vagaraati • Sanskrit: पुष्करमूल pushkarmula, kemuka, कुशथा kushtha, shura • Tamil: கொட்டம் kottam, கோஷ்டம் kostam • Telugu: చెంగలికోష్టు cengalikostu, కాశ్మీరము kasmiramu, కిముక kimuka
Regards. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Roots are highly medicinal but I imagine if it is edible as normal > food. I heard that its used enhance sperm formation by tribals in our > Jharkhand!! > Pankaj > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, arjunan <[email protected]> wrote: > > hello friends, > > > > Just wanted to know if the roots of Spiral ginger are edible. > > > > regards to all. > > > > On Sep 21, 7:33 am, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Cheilocostus speciosus indeed found as wild in some regions of Bengal > >> tanay > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Shantanu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Nice coincidence > >> > >> > Shantanu : ) > >> > >> > On Sep 21, 12:24 am, Shantanu Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > Hi > >> > > taken these shots of the Spiral Ginger that grows in the wild in the > >> > > Narendrapur area of Kolkata. > >> > > regards > >> > > Shantanu : ) > >> > >> > > Shantanu Bhattacharya. > >> > > B.Sc, M.Sc (Zoology) > >> > > University of Calcutta. > >> > > Teaching Faculty. > >> > > Dept. of Biology. > >> > > Vivekananda Mission School(ICSE). > >> > > Joka. Kolkata. > >> > >> > > ginger.jpg > >> > > 129KViewDownload > >> > >> > > spiral ginger.jpg > >> > > 143KViewDownload > >> > >> -- > >> *Tanay Bose* > >> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > >> Department of Botany. > >> University of British Columbia . > >> 3529-6270 University Blvd. > >> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > >> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > >> 604-822-2019 (Lab) > >> [email protected] > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India >
