Turmeric is a form of shrubs and herbs is an annual (perennial) spread throughout the tropics. Turmeric plants grow lush and wild around the forest / former garden. Estimated to come from twinkle at an altitude of 1300-1600 m above sea level, have also said that turmeric comes from India. Curcuma words derived from Arabic and Greek Kurkum Karkom. In the year 77-78 BC, Dioscorides called this plant as Cyperus resembling ginger, but bitter, chocolate, and a little spicy, but not toxic.
This plant is widely cultivated in South Asia especially in India, South China, Taiwan, Indonesia (Java), and the Philippines (Ministry of Research and Technology, 2003). Turmeric plants grow to the height of 40-100 cm fork. Is the pseudo-stem trunks, upright, rounded, forming a rhizome with yellowish green color and is composed of leaf midrib (slightly soft). Single leaf, oval shape (oblong) extends up to 10-40 cm, a width of 8 to 12.5 cm and pertulangan pinnate with a pale green color.
Flowering-haired and scaly compound of pseudo-stem shoots, 10-15 cm long with a crown of about 3 cm and 1.5 cm wide, white / yellowish. Tapered leaf tip and base, the flat edge of the leaf. Outer skin rhizome brownish orange, red fruit flesh yellowish orange (Ministry of Research and Technology, 2003).