Plant continued herbaceous

The Zingiberaceae is a large family of perennial herbaceous plants. The family contains approximately 1400 species in 47 genera [1]. The species are widely distributed throughout India, tropical Asian and extend to northern Australia. Zingiberaceous plants have been used in traditional or herbal medicine throughout the tropical world. Members of the family have attracted continuous phytochemical interest due to their culinary uses and their biological and pharmaceutical activities. 

Possibly the most desirable growth characteristic of all for herbaceous species is the ability to produce new shoots continually throughout the year, year after year, from an established crown. This is a predominant characteristic of sugarcane and certain other tropical grasses both related and unrelated to Saccharum species. Such plants do not require the periodic dormancy and rest intervals so important to most temperate species. Nor is this compensated by the intensive flush of May-June growth by temperate plants over the course of a year the slower-growing tropical forms will outproduce them by a factor of three or four. 

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