Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale,
consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its
genus and family (Zingiberaceae). Other notable members of this plant
family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal. The distantly related
dicots in the Asarum genus have the common name wild ginger because of
their similar taste.
Ginger is indigenous to southern China, from
whence it is spread to the Spice Islands and other parts of Asia, and
subsequently to West Africa and to the Caribbean.
Ginger produces...