Curcuma heyneana

Botanical Description

Curcuma heyneana is a perennial, herbaceous plant producing pseudostems from a much branched and elongated rhizome. The speudostems are made up of several leaves whose blades can be 17 - 42cm long and 7 - 13cm wide[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. The plant is commonly used in skin treatments in Indonesia and also has other medicinal uses as well as sometimes being used for food. It can be harvested from the wild, but is also sometimes cultivated for its rhizome in Indonesia[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ].