Turmeric

'Olena

Canoe Plant of Ancient Hawai`i

'Edible Orange Ginger'

Common names:

(known as 'Olena in Hawaiian) Turmeric, Common ginger, ginger, cooking ginger, Canton ginger, Edible Orange ginger.

Curcuma longa

Native to Tropical Asian forests

Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands

Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)

Botanical name: Curcuma longa Linn.
Synonmous name: Curcuma domestica Valeton

 
     'Olena is one of the canoe plants brought by the Polynesians when they discovered the Hawaiian islands. According to Abbott, 1992, and Krohn-Ching, 1980, 'Olena mixed with sea water was used to purify objects, people, and places.

       Here's your chance to plant these and grow your own spice!

        Tumeric (known as 'Olena in Hawaiian) is well known as a culinary herb and important ingredient in traditional healer's medical kit. Curcuma's healing properties are renowned and shared by many cultures.

      In Hawaii and India both, it is also used as a saffron dye for fabric and tapa, and foods that are cooked with turmeric (including yellow curry) are noted for their golden signature glow.

        Another favorite of ours, We cook with these same rhizomes. These rhizomes add that excellent spicy flavor so prized in Asian recipes. You can cook with these or plant them. Olena ground rhizomes is used for marinating meat and seafood, as well as adding color and taste to curries. We love using the leaves too to spice up some dishes.

      The 'Olena (Curcuma longa) is an exotic herb grown for its spicy rhizomes used in cooking and medicines. 'Edible Ginger' has broad leaves. Lacking a true stem, long, overlapping leaves grow up to 20 inches high from the root of the plant. Yellow and white flower bracts also appear on 'Olena.

You are bidding on one (1) live bare-root 6-12 inch plant collected and grown in Hawaii.

Hardiness: USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F)

Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade

This species is Dormant during winter like many gingers.

       Curcuma longa, commonly called turmeric, 'Olena in Hawaiian culture, is a medicinal plant that has been used by many cultures throughout the world, but has only in the last two decades been studied pharmacologically and substantiated by scientific reasearch. This perennial herb is proving to be an important medicine.

      The wonderful, bright orange rhizomes make a golden yellow dye which was used by Hawaiians to color kapa cloth. The special medicinal uses in Hawaiian culture indicate that the astringent and antibacterial properties of the plant were utilized. The rhizome was crushed and the juice was mixed with water and used as a treatment for ear infections. The same remedy was used for cleaning the nasal passages. The anti-inflammatory action of the plant has been confirmed in recent studies.

       Turmeric is native to India and southern Asia and has long been used as a spice in cooking; for coloring food (curry dishes), flavoring, and as a preservative. It's historical uses as a medicine are numerous. As an anti-inflammatory it has been useful for arthritis, allergies, asthma, and eczema. It can be used for external skin conditions such as psoriasis and fungal infections. It has also been used for treating indigestion, gallbladder or liver disease, obesity, and as a cancer preventative. As a digestive, it increases mucus production in the stomach. It is a good natural medicine for nausea and motion sickness.

          This extremely versatile root is reknowned for its popularity in Oriental and Indian cooking.

      A relative of the ginger plant, it looks much like a pudgy ginger root from the outside, but once you cut into it, the shock of vibrant orange differentiates it from your average store bought ginger (Zingiber officinale). If you haven't heard about turmeric, most likely you have unknowingly tasted it. Used as one of the main ingredients in Indian curries, and as a coloring agent in mustard, turmeric probably crossed your lips or at least stained that new white shirt you wore to that picnic. Found in body washes, shampoos, soaps, and makeup, turmeric has become increasingly popular in the body care industry. Used in beauty rituals for Indian, and Bengali weddings, brides are covered in turmeric paste to create a glow like no other. Also applied to cuts, skin infections, acne, and scars turmeric has been known as a useful beauty rescue aid.

 

The rhizomes are boiled for several hours and then dried in hot ovens, after which they are ground into a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spice in curries and other South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine, for dyeing, and to impart color to mustard condiments. Its active ingredient is curcumin and it has an earthy, bitter, peppery flavor and a mustardy smell.

        Turmeric/Curcuma Longa is mainly grown for its aromatic, edible root that is used in cooking as well as medicinal purposes.

    Ginger root is also used in baking, confectionery and certain liquors. Ginger root is a gnarled and knobby root that has a tan skin and a pale yellow-green to ivory flesh.

Fresh ginger root imparts a pungent, hot and spicy taste to many dishes.

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     All live plants are shipped bare-root wrapped in moist sphagnum moss to ensure the plant’s healthy transit to you. All live plants are Inspected By USDA Plant Inspectors before they are shipped to insure you get healthy pest free plants and seeds.

We ship via USPS Mondays-Wednesday with Delivery confirmation.

  All plant materials are required by LAW to inspected and certified by USDA prior to export Hawaii to the US Mainland.

 After Inspection, USDA stamps released for export Hawaii to the US Mainland. All items are delivered to USDA Inspection Station at Honolulu International airport.

USDA Certification charge is included in Shipping and Handling @ $5 fee per item/species.

There is a packing & custom boxing fee.

Last and usually least is USPS postage (shipping).

 

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We will combine shipping for auctions won on the same week paid with same paypal payment.

   This policy is good for auction items bought and paid for in the week ending MONDAY.

Payment must be received within 7 days of the auction ending. 

Combined Discounts Won Auctions

     For 2-3 winning auctions, the combined discount is 10% of the total Shipping and Handling charges. For 4-7 winning auctions, the combined discount is 20% of the total Shipping and Handling charges. For 7+ winning auctions, the combined discount is 30% of the total Shipping and Handling charges.

 

         As each order is packed and prepared separately you will pay the quoted S/H charges individually per item. If you buy the same species in that item it does calculate out the discount (i.e.: additional item $3.61). My stores' combined shipping is built in for same items rather than a varied selection. Includes postage, USDA certification and inspection, proper packing and delivery to Airport for prompt delivery. I can’t really change any of these. If you want one of this and one of that, it gets hard to discount much as each different species requires it's own prep & packing, then at USDA each has to be unwrapped and inspected then repacked. USDA requires me to clean and prepare every last piece before we drive them to the Inspection Station on the other side of the island. It takes my wife and I, a day to pack items and get ready to ship. The whole next day we drive around the island and get inspected (2-3 hours), then drive to the Airport Post Office to drop off. It takes the same work with the same type item if you can understand.

 

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Not every plant that I order through the mail survives, and I am aware of that and accept the risk when I order. This is the risk that you as the buyer accept, because there is no way to know what kind of conditions it will endure in the trip to your door. My responsibility ends when a live plant is delivered to your door. Live arrival is guaranteed, eternal survival is up to you.

 Do NOT email me a week after potting your plant, and make a claim it arrived damaged. From delivery confirmation, you have only 48 hours from delivery confirmation to make any claim.

 

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The expense to send it to you is most of your payment. To send any replacement (s), I try to piggy back with your next order.

Replacement is not an option for CUSTOMS SEIZURE.

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Please do not leave a 1 or 2 in my detailed seller ratings for postage fees or any reason really because I will block you from any further purchases. I ship items the best and least expensive option. These are coming from Hawaii. The only thing inexpensive here in Hawaii are my items!! I do ship all my items promptly via best method--if you feel like the combined shipping fee is wrong, please wait to be invoiced and check back with me-I value your business and will work diligently to keep you satisfied. I am very generous and reasonable with reasonable people, just ask.

 

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