Ginger
Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is used as a spice and a folk medicine.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Streptophyta |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Zingiber |
| Species: | Z. officinale
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| Zingiber officinale | |
It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems. These are false stems made of rolled leaves: about one meter tall with narrow leaf blades. The inflorescences come directly from the rhizome on separate shoots.[3]
Ginger is used as a cooking spice throughout the world. The ginger plant has long been cultivated. It came from China and spread to India, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and the Caribbean.
Ginger is also a term used to describe a red-brown colour, as in ginger hair.
Ginger Media
Blütenstand von Zingiber officinale
Ginger field.
Ginger root
செடியில் இஞ்சி. பொங்கல்விழாவில் படையல் செய்வர். விற்பனைக்காக.
Two varieties of ginger in China
Gingerbread man and his wife with a Gingerbread house
Ginger Plant and Flower
Ginger flower about to bloom
ginger flower stamen
Ginger crop, hills near Kalaw, Myanmar
References
- ↑ "Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
{{citation}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "Ginger". US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- ↑ Sutarno H, Hadad EA, Brink M (1999). "Zingiber officinale Roscoe". In De Guzman CC, Siemonsma JS (eds.). Plant resources of South-East Asia: no.13: Spices. Leiden (Netherlands): Backhuys. pp. 238–244.