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Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubu' Inib'''<br>(Etlingera Nasuta)<br>[http://www.wildborneo.com.my/images/clp092703.jpg See external image] | Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubu' Inib'''<br>(Etlingera Nasuta)<br>[http://www.wildborneo.com.my/images/clp092703.jpg See external image] | ||
Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubu' Tana''''<br>(Etlingera Punicea)<br>[http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8983/gingers/punicea.jpg See external image] | Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubu' Tana''''<br>(Etlingera Punicea)<br>[http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8983/gingers/punicea.jpg See external image] | ||
| + | Image:Default_Photo.jpg|'''Tubu' Abang'''<br>(Zingiber Longipedunculatum)<br>[http://www.botany.org/plantimages/ImageData.asp?IDN=abot86-5&IS=300 See external image] | ||
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Revision as of 23:35, 3 December 2007
Tubu' is the generic term for plants in the ginger family.
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 Tubu' Berek Sia' (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
Busak Luduh, Tubu' Terebak
Photo by Richard Howard
Tubu' ?
Photo by Richard Howard
Tubu' ?
Photo by Richard Howard
Tubu' ?
Photo by Richard Howard
Busak Tubu' Tesiluk (?)
Photo by Wayne Kalang
Tubu' (?)
Photo by Wayne Kalang
Tubu' Berek Sia'
(Zingiber Kelabitianum)
Photo by ?Tubu' Berek Bata'
(Zingiber Pseudopungens)
Photo by ?Tubu' Buen
Photo by ?Tubu' Kering Ebpa
(Amomum Anomalum)
Photo by ?Tubu' Kering Buduk
(Amomum Dimorphum)
Photo by ?Tubu' Inib
(Etlingera Nasuta)
See external imageTubu' Tana'
(Etlingera Punicea)
See external imageTubu' Abang
(Zingiber Longipedunculatum)
See external image
References
- Ethnobotany of the Iban & Kelabit by Hanne Christensen
