Shampoo ginger
ಅಗರು ಶುಂಠಿ ಗಿಡகாட்டு இஞ்சிകോലിഞ്ചി
Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Roscoe ex Sm.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Zingiberaceae
Also called Bitter ginger, Pinecone ginger, Shampoo Ginger
Formerly Amomum zerumbet, Zerumbet zingiber
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4–6 ft; Wikipedia 1.2–1.2 m
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Cream, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Hawaiian
- ‘awapuhi
- Spanish
- Gengibre shampoo asiático
- Japanese
- ハナショウガ
- root
- Kōpī ‘Enua, Kōpī ‘Enua (Rarotonga), Niniore (Ngaputoru)
- Chinese (China)
- 红球姜
- Chinese
- 紅球薑, 煨姜, 红球姜
- Russian
- Имбирь зерумбет
- Polish
- imbir cytwarowy
- Thai
- กะทือ
- Indonesian
- Lempuyang
- Slovak
- ďumbier indický
- Turkish
- Yabani Zencefil
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Zingiber zerumbet (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.