Ginger
{{automatic taxobox
| taxon = Zingiber officinale
| image = Koeh-146-no_text.jpg
| image_caption = 1896 color plate from
"Köhler's Medicinal Plants"
| binomial = "Zingiber officinale"
| binomial_authority = Roscoe 1807
{{cite web
|url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?42254
|title=Zingiber officinale information from NPGS/GRIN
|publisher=ars-grin.gov
|accessdate=3 March 2008}}
}}
"'Ginger"' (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a flowering plant in the family Zingiberaceae whose rhizome, "'ginger root"' or simply "'ginger"', is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine.
It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. Ginger is indigenous to south China, and was spread eventually to the Spice Islands, other parts of Asia and subsequently to West Africa and the Caribbean. Ginger was exported to Europe via India in the first century AD as a result of the lucrative spice trade. India is now the largest producer of ginger.
Other members of the family Zingiberaceae include turmeric, cardamom, and galangal. The distantly related dicots in the genus "Asarum" are commonly called wild ginger because of their similar taste.
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