| English Name: Ginger Plant |
Spanish Name: Gengibre
Size: 2 to 3 feet tall
Life span: More than 2 years
Revised by: Stephanie ^-*
Revised by: Kimberly
Predators: Humans
Adaptations
: Forest habitad, with low light and little wind.
Interesting Facts:
- The ginger was cultivated from India to Malaysia.
- Ginger is used for curing nauseous problems.
- Ginger cures digestive problems.
- Lowers blood pressure.
- Good for curing heart diseases.
- Used as spices or flavoring for food.
- Ginger stands erect or in most cases with the leaves spreading out towards the ground at a near horizontal position.
- Ginger's origin is Southern China.
- Ginger is grown in tropic and subtropic areas of Asia, in Brazil, Jamaica, and Nigeria.
- Jamaica has the best quality of ginger while 50 percent of the world's harvest of ginger is in India.
- The rhizome is not a root, although some people refer it as ginger root.
- When it is fresh, the rhizome gives the appearance of a staghorn.
- Dried ginger is used for flavouring in ginger harvesting countries.
- These plants grow as tall shrubs, with long upright leaves.
- There is more then one kind of ginger flowers.
- The part of ginger that is used is the big, fleshy rhizome.
Bibliography :
"Ginger"
http://www.wala.de/english/pflanze/archiv/ingwer.htm 12 Mar.
2003
"Gernot Katzer's Spice Page"
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.html?Zing_off.html
"Ginger Adaptation"
http://www.aber.ac.uk/biology/ian_scott/zingib-z.htm
"Ginger Life-Span" http://www.landcare.org.nz/biodiversity/Reference_v.asp?ReferenceID=65"9
"Ginger flower"
http://www.rainforesteducation.com/FunNGames/slideshows/tour2.htm
Ginger Flower
www.junglephotos.com/.../ miscflwrs/miscflwrs.html
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