It is its rhizome that we use in everyday life as a spice, as well as a healing agent. The most well-known species in culture is Zingiber officinale. Externally, the plant is somewhat similar to our dear cane, but the stems have many scales. The flowers are collected in the ears at the top of the shoots, in the axils of the leaves. The most common in culture – orange-yellow and brown colors of the inflorescences, but there are also red. The leaves are simple, whole, long, at the ends with a point.ĭepending on the cultivated variety, ginger flowers may vary in color. Ginger stalks are not pubescent, they are long, rounded and upright. From the most developed rhizomes a pair of ground stalks grow. Ginger has a dense, thick rhizome, covered in several layers with leaves with interstitial adventitious roots located in them. It is due to this that he has an unusual spicy-sharp aroma and taste. Ginger contains many essential oils in its rhizome and other parts.
At the beginning of the XVI century, introduced to America. Actively grown in India, China, West Africa and Australia, also in the culture of Barbados, Jamaica and Indonesia. One report states that the rhizomes are bitter and astringent.Ginger is a perennial herb and belongs to the ginger family. Flowers are edible, often used in salads or added as garnish, rhizomes are cooked in curries or used to make syrups. In Sarawak, young tender shoots are stir-fried with anchovies and fermented shrimp paste known as Belachan. The species can be propagated by seeds or stem cuttings.Įdible Plant Parts (Edible Storage Organs)įood (Fruit & Vegetable : Parts of the plant are consumed in rural communities of South East Asia and India. It thrives in partial shade, grown in moist, fertile soils.
Its flowers are visited by bees, butterflies, and sunbirds. It grows in damp open places, and is commonly found in lowland forest margins. It has stout rhizomes that creeps horizontally. Each contain numerous black glossy seeds which splits upon maturity. Its fruit are produced in a red woody capsule, 1. Flower emerged in between the bracts, they are white, funnel-like with a yellow centre, measuring 6–8 cm wide. Its flowering spike is dark red, ovoid-oblong in shape between 12–15 cm in height. The stems are reddish, slightly woody at the base. The shortly-stalked foliage are arranged spirally along the long slender stems. Its leaves are lance to oblong in shape, velvety about 15 to 20 cm long. It is a large perennial herb, with stems up to 3 m tall.
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