Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Curcuma longa
Collector Name:
P. Emos Eperiam
Collection Date:
February 23, 2006
Determiner:
Tim Flynn (PTBG) 23 Feb 2006
Island Group:
CAROLINE ISLANDS
County:
Kitti Municipality
Locality:
Enpein, Nah Kariki. Collected in agroforest among homestead.
Plant Description:
An herb with green leaves above and paler green below. Inside of tuber bright orange. N.V. "Kisiniong [Pohnpeian]."
Ethnobotanical Notes:
Leaf: Flavoring. Soup. Take one or two leaves and put into your cooking soup. This will give taste to the soup.
Tuber: Ghost sickness. Pull up one or two tubers, clean it, pound and let the person who has ghost sickness smell it. This should help scare the evil spirit away. Just once when the sickness starts.
Participant: Penasio Eperiam. Male.
tuber: Ghost sickness. Pull up one or two tubers, clean it, pound and let the person who has ghost sickness smell it. This should help scare the evil spirit away. Just once when the sickness starts.
Participant: Penasio Eperiam. Male.
Habitat:
Agroforest area.
Date of Record Creation:
April 12, 2013
Date of Last Update:
August 6, 2023
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