What is Ginger?

What is Ginger?

Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale.

Other Common Names: Jamaican ginger, Indian Ginger, gan-jiang, sheng-jiang, African ginger, black ginger, zingiber officinale.

Description and Habitat: The ginger plant is an erect plant that grows from one to three feet tall.

Ginger is a flowering plant that originated from China and East Indies, mostly cultivated in tropical countries.

It belongs to the Zingiberaceae family, and is closely related to turmeric, cardamom and galangal.

The rhizome (underground part of the stem) is the part commonly used as a spice. It is often called ginger root, or simply ginger.

Warm, spicy, and energizing, ginger oil comes from ginger root (Zingiber officinale), a pungent, peculiar-looking underground rhizome.

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