The beautiful, very ornamental Zingiber malaysianum 'Chocolate' is a cultivar of Zingiber malaysianum C.K.Lim. It is a stunning, compact species, growing up to height of 1-1.2m.;Its glossy foliage is a very dark reddish brown, sometimes appearing almost blackish-brown in some specimens.
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Genus name comes form Old English ginȝifer, ginȝiber, form Late Latin gingiber, form Latin zingiberi, form Greek zingiberis, form Prakrit (Middle Indic) singabera, form Sanskrit srngaveram, form srngam "horn" + vera- "body," so called form the shape of its root. But this may be Sanskrit folk etymology, and the word may be form an ancient Dravidian word that also produced the modern name for the spice, inchi-ver (inchi "ginger", ver "root").
Zingiber malaysianum 'Chocolate'
Zingiber malaysianum 'Chocolate' is ca. 45cm tall and comes in a ⌀14cm pot.