Difference between revisions of "Tubuq"

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Image:Gkvaerner DSC02588.jpg|'''Busak Tubuq Tesiluk (?)'''<br>Photo by [[user:Gkvaener|Wayne Kalang]]
 
Image:Gkvaerner DSC02588.jpg|'''Busak Tubuq Tesiluk (?)'''<br>Photo by [[user:Gkvaener|Wayne Kalang]]
 
Image:Gkvaener pic2.jpg|'''Tubuq (?)'''<br>Photo by [[user:Gkvaener|Wayne Kalang]]
 
Image:Gkvaener pic2.jpg|'''Tubuq (?)'''<br>Photo by [[user:Gkvaener|Wayne Kalang]]
Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubuq Berek Siaq'''<br>(Zingiber Kelabitianum)<br>Photo by ?
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Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubuq Berek Siaq'''<br>(Zingiber Kelabitianum)<br>Photo by ?<br>See  [http://www.wildborneo.com.my/images/clp081513.jpg external image]
 
Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubuq Berek Bataq'''<br>(Zingiber Pseudopungens)<br>Photo by ?
 
Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubuq Berek Bataq'''<br>(Zingiber Pseudopungens)<br>Photo by ?
 
Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubuq Buen'''<br>Photo by ?
 
Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubuq Buen'''<br>Photo by ?

Revision as of 09:28, 17 January 2008

Tubuq is the generic term for plants in the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).

Apart from the common ginger (liyeh), there is a variety of wild gingers (genus zingiber) known to the Kelabits, used in their cooking or for other medicinal purposes.

The young shoots of Tubuq Berek Siaq (red pig ginger) for instance is eaten as a vegetable and the flower is used as medicine for dogs. But it was unknown to the scientific community until 1998 when Dr. Hanne Christensen together with Dr. Ida Theilade, a botanist specialising in gingers, described it scientifically and published it in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany. They named it the Zingiber Kelabitianum in honour of the Kelabit people. (1) See external image

Wild Ginger Varieties Known to the Kelabits

References

  1. Ethnobotany of the Iban & Kelabit by Hanne Christensen