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Galangal
Alpinia galanga
Alpinia galanga (also Languas galanga), a plant in the ginger family, is an herb used in cooking, especially in Indonesian and Thai cuisines. It is one of four plants known as galangal and is differentiated from the others with the common name greater galangal (or simply Thai galangal). The galangals are also called blue ginger or Thai ginger.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.200
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.109
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.167
On the Simple Medicines from the West Indies
Nicolas Monardes · 1574 · p.165
On the Simple Medicines from the West Indies
Nicolas Monardes · 1574 · p.165
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.371
Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.89
Ten Books of Exotic Things
Carolus Clusius · 1605 · p.231
Sancai Tuhui (Vol. 97)
王圻, 王思義 · 1607 · p.32
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 24)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.74
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Alpinia galanga in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123732.