Galangal

Description:

A plant of the ginger family Zingiberaceae, it has beautifully fragrant flowers - specially fragrant at dusk and dawn. The flowers are white with delicate stamens. They look very much like the flowers of wild ginger but with wider petals.

Habitat:

Herb gardens

Notes:

Also known as Blue Ginger, the rhizome (underground stem) from which the shoots of vegetation arise, is fragrant and used as a spice in Asian cuisine, especially in Thai cuisine. The rhizome is very much like ginger but more fragrant and less spicy. think the rhizome is best when it's a little mature.. These are the first flowers of some galangal plants growing in my backyard. They are not wild but I could not resist taking photos of them. They might have been fresher a day earlier but I did not see them !!