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No green thumb or outdoor garden is required to grow this delicious plant.
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. [2] It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a 2018 role-playing video game developed and published by Jam City. The game is set in the Wizarding World and based on the Harry Potter novels written by J.K. Rowling. Hogwarts Mystery follows a player character entering the fictional school of Hogwarts and is set before the
Zingiber zerumbet [3] is a species of plant in the ginger family [4] with leafy stems growing to about 1.2 m (3.9 ft) tall. It originates from Asia, but can be found in many tropical countries. It originates from Asia, but can be found in many tropical countries.
British author J. K. Rowling did not deliberately name the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from her Harry Potter series of books after the hogwort. It was only after the books were published, when a friend reminded her of seeing the plant in the Kew Gardens many years beforehand, that Rowling speculated that the name had remained in her subconscious ever since.
Ginger has been used for some 2,000 years to treat specific health conditions. Today, the plant's benefits are being recognized on a global scale.
The root is edible. [13] Native Americans used the plant for various medicinal purposes. [13] Some describe using A. caudatum as a ginger substitute [5] and as a tea with medicinal properties. In a study on its effects on fungus, A. caudatum had antifungal properties when tested against nine fungal species. [14]
Heathwort - Any plant of the genus Erica, the heath family. Hemlock dropwort - Oenanthe fistulosa. A plant of the parsley family, Apiaceae or Umbelliferae. Hillwort - Wild thyme, or Mentha pulegium, a kind of pennyroyal. Hogwort - Croton capitatus. J.K. Rowling named Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after this plant (although she ...