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===Food===
Kebuka can be used in food. Underground root stock is eaten after cooking. Tender shoots are boiled with coconut milk and consumed as vegetable<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Parts Used==
===Nutritional components===
Cheilocostus speciosus contains the Following nutritional components like - diosgenine and tigogenin, saponin and genins; aliphatic OH-ketone; 5α-stimast-9(11)- en-3β-ol<ref name="Nutritional componentsForest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Habit==
==Cultivation Details==
C. speciosus are usually grown in fertile, organic, moist, well-drained soils in shade. Tropical climate with high humidity and minimum temperature 13o C is best for its cultivation. Crepe ginger grows from thick fleshy roots called "rhizomes"<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>. Cheilocostus speciosus is available through July to September<ref name="How to plant/cultivateForest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
