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  2. Zingiber - Wikipedia

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    Garden ginger's rhizome is the classic spice "ginger", and may be used whole, candied (known commonly as crystallized ginger), or dried and powdered. Other popular gingers used in cooking include cardamom and turmeric , [ 6 ] though neither of these examples is a "true ginger" – they belong to different genera in the family Zingiberaceae .

  3. Alpinia caerulea - Wikipedia

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    Alpinia caerulea is a rhizomatous plant with arching stalks growing to 2–3 m (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) long. [4] [5] [6] Each carries a number of large alternately arranged leaves up to 40 cm (16 in) long and 10 cm (3.9 in) wide.

  4. Ginger - Wikipedia

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    Though India is the largest ginger producer in the world, it fails to play the role of a large exporter and only accounts for about 1.17% of total ginger exports. [33] Ginger farming in India is a costly and risky business, as farmers do not gain much money from exports and "more than 65% of the total cost incurred is toward labor and seed ...

  5. Zingiberaceae - Wikipedia

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    Zingiberaceae (/ ˌ z ɪ n dʒ ɪ b ɪ ˈ r eɪ s i. iː /) or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species [4] of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

  6. Alpinia - Wikipedia

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    This is the largest genus in the ginger family, [7] with 248 species and 2 hybrids accepted by Plants of the World Online as of 27 June 2024. [1] A number of those are commonly grown for their flowers, including red ginger , and others are used as spices, including Galangal .

  7. Alpinia zerumbet - Wikipedia

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    Alpinia zerumbet, commonly known as shell ginger among other names, is a perennial species of ginger native to East Asia. The plants can grow up to 2.5 to 3 meters (8 to 10 ft) tall and bear colorful funnel-shaped flowers. They are grown as ornamentals and their leaves are used in cuisine and traditional medicine.

  8. Wild ginger - Wikipedia

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    Wild ginger may refer to any of a variety of plants, often with a similar appearance, odour or taste to cultivated ginger. Species involved include: Species involved include: Any of the Alpinia species, especially A. caerulea , a large tropical flowering plant

  9. Alpinia purpurata - Wikipedia

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    Alpinia purpurata, commonly referred to as red ginger, ostrich plume and pink cone ginger, is a ginger native to Maluku and the southwest Pacific islands.In typical ginger fashion, A. purpurata is a rhizomatous plant, spreading underground in a horizontal growth habit, sending feeder roots downwards into the substrate and sprouting leafy vertical stems from nodes located along the rhizome.