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Zingiberaceae

Fingerroot

Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf.

Family
Zingiberaceae
Genus
Boesenbergia

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Fingerroot: Chinese ginger or fingerroot. Taste a lot like ginger, only "stronger". a little bit medicinal. Nice in fish-curries. Meer weten over Chinese Gember ? Surf naar
Photo: FotoosVanRobin from Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (16)
ban
Temu kunci
Chinese
凹唇姜, 凹唇薑
Dutch
Temu kunci, Chinese gember, Temoe koentjie, Vingerwortel
English
Fingerroot, Rotund boesenbergia, Chinese ginger
Esperanto
Ĉina zingibro
German
Chinesischer Ingwer, Fingerwurz
Hungarian
Ujjgyökér, Kracsaj, Kínai gyömbér
Indonesian
Temu kunci
Japanese
オオバンガジュツ, クラチャーイ
Javanese
Temu kunci
Korean
핑거루트
mad
Koncè
Malay
Pokok Temu Kunci
Persian
زنجبیل چینی
Sundanese
Kunci
Thai
กระชาย, กระชายวิสุทธิ์

Synonyms

  • Boesenbergia baimaii Saensouk & K.Larsen
  • Boesenbergia cochinchinensis (Gagnep.) Loes.
  • Boesenbergia isanensis Saensouk & P.Saensouk
  • Boesenbergia pandurata (Roxb.) Schltr.
  • Curcuma rotunda L.
  • Gastrochilus panduratus (Roxb.) Ridl.
  • Gastrochilus rotundus (L.) Alston
  • Kaempferia cochinchinensis Gagnep.
  • Kaempferia ovata Roscoe
  • Kaempferia pandurata Roxb.
  • Zingiber xanthorhizum Moon

Flowers

In flower
January, September (from 9 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)

Photos

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.