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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==
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233910986_Costus_speciosus_An_antidiabetic_plant-review Cultivation details]</ref>
<ref name="Ayurvedic preparations">[https://easyayurveda.com/2017/07/19/costus-speciosus-crepe-ginger-kebuka/ Ayurvedic preparations]</ref>
<ref name="Nutritional componentsForest foods of Western Ghat">"Forest food for Northern region of western ghat pdf Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.49, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS - ) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune</ref>
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