English Name Of A Thai Plant?

[khaojao]

hi everyone...

there's a very common plant in thailand called pak kring / pak king. does anyone know the english name of this plant?

many thanks

[sbk]

Ginger?

[meadish_sweetball]

hi everyone...

there's a very common plant in thailand called pak kring / pak king. does anyone know the english name of this plant?

many thanks

sbk's guess is good - ginger is the only one I am familiar with that has a name resembling what you wrote.

Ginger is ขิง in Thai. But there may well be others. Transcribed Thai without tone indications makes it very difficult to guess unless one is a native speaker - the second word could theoretically be written in at least 30 different ways.

If you could give the Thai spelling I'd be able to answer within a minute... a picture or a description of its features, or how it is used, would also help.

[eefoo]

Personally I've never heard of 'king' (ginger) being prefixed with 'pak' (vegetable) before in Thailand. I have no other suggestions to offer though.

[sbk]

Me neither but that was the only one I could think of.

[khaojao]

hmmmm...i don't think it's ginger...i asked the speaker again who says "it's like peking" which left me completely baffled hahaha...and it's a green vegetable. maybe i'll try to get him to write it in thai and post it here again

thanks for helping everyone

EDIT : peking as in beijing

[yoot]

It's probably called หญ้าปักกิ่ง in Thai.

For more details, look at this page;

http://webserv.kmitl.ac.th/~piggy/article.html

[khaojao]

It's probably called ??????????? in Thai.

For more details, look at this page;

<a href="http://webserv.kmitl.ac.th/~piggy/article.html" target="_blank">http://webserv.kmitl.ac.th/~piggy/article.html</a>

that's it!!!! thank u thank u thank u thank u thank u thank u ...

the website doesn'g give an english translated name tho...anyone knows? thanks

EDIT : i googled and found out...it's called "peking grass" lol

[meadish_sweetball]

Latin: Murdannia loriformis

Angel grass, Beijing grass, Peking grass

(And an extra thank you to Yoot for helping out. )