Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine
It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one metre tall bearing narrow leaf blades.
The inflorescences bear pale yellow with purple flowers and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoots
Ginger is in the family Zingiberaceae, which also includes turmeric (Curcuma longa), cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), and galangal.
Ginger originated in Island Southeast Asia and was likely domesticated first by the Austronesian peoples.
It was transported with them throughout the Indo-Pacific during the Austronesian expansion (c. 5,000 BP), reaching as far as Hawaii. Ginger is one of the first spices to have been exported from Asia, arriving in Europe with the spice trade, and was used by ancient Greeks and Romans.
The distantly related dicots in the genus Asarum are commonly called wild ginger because of their similar taste.
The English origin of the word, “ginger”, is from the mid-14th century, from Old English gingifer, from Medieval Latin gingiber, from Greek zingiberis, from Prakrit (Middle Indic) singabera, from Sanskrit srngaveram, from srngam “horn” and vera- “body”, from the shape of its root
The word probably was readopted in Middle English from Old French gingibre (modern French gingembre)
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