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| Ginger | |
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| 1896 color plate from Köhler's Medicinal Plants | |
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| Inflorescence | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Streptophyta |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Zingiberaceae |
| Genus: | Zingiber |
| Species: | Z. officinale |
| Binomial name | |
| Zingiber officinale | |
Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is used as a spice and a folk medicine.
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.
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