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Mango Ginger
Curcuma amada
Mango ginger looks like turmeric and tastes like green mango - the rhizome and the foliage both carry the aroma, which is what the name records. It is used as a mild ginger-flavoured spice, mostly in pickles and chutneys, and has a long medicinal record for digestion and for coughs and bronchitis, with the mashed root put on ulcers, bruises, wounds and sprains. As a crop it wants what a monsoon forest floor gives it: humus-rich soil that stays moist but drains, shade rather than open sun, and a warm season long enough to fill the rhizome, which takes roughly six months from planting to maturity. It handles a seasonal dry period better than most gingers. Rhizome rot is the disease that costs a crop, so drainage matters more than fertility.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun · Shade
- USDA zone
- USDA 8–11
- Soil
- Loam
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moist · Wet
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- Not yet recorded
- Plant type
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 31–35 in
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 6–9 in
- Root type
- Rhizome
- Spread pattern
- Root
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