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Alpinia galanga - Known as Thai ginger or Greater galangal, and is a cold hardy variety of ginger grown from zones 8. [2] [3] Alpinia japonica - Native to China, Japan, Taiwan and is a cold hardy variety of ginger grown from zones 8. [2] [4] [5] Alpinia zerumbet - Shell ginger is native to East Asia and is a cold hardy variety of ginger grown ...
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family) Red ginger. (national flower of Samoa) Teve: Amorphophallus paeoniifolius: Araceae (arum family) elephant foot yam, whitespot giant arum Tipolo (Tahitian loan word) Citrus medica: Rutaceae (Citrus family) Citron, lemon Togo, Togotogo: Centella asiatica: Apiaceae (Carrot family) Asiatic pennywort Tolo: Saccharum ...
Ginger was carried with them in their voyages as canoe plants during the Austronesian expansion, starting from around 5,000 BP. They introduced it to the Pacific Islands in prehistory, long before any contact with other civilizations. Reflexes of the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word * laqia are found in Austronesian languages all the way to Hawaii.
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.
Curcuma amada, or mango ginger is a plant of the ginger family Zingiberaceae and is closely related to turmeric (Curcuma longa). The rhizomes are very similar to common ginger but lack its pungency, and instead have a raw mango flavour.
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.
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It is called plai (ไพล) in Thailand, in addition to (ว่านไฟ wan-fai) in Isan language and (ปูเลย bpulai) in northern Thai language. The rhizome of variant 'Roxburgh' is used medicinally in massage and even in food in Thailand, and somewhat resembles ginger root or galangal. [2]