HERB - Ginger

Kathleen H. Keeler kkeeler1 at unl.edu
Sun Jul 11 20:19:20 PDT 1999


There are two unrelated things that are called ginger.

_Asarum_ a small herb of eastern forests and _Zingiber_ a big banana-like
thing of the Old World tropics.  I presume you could germinate the ginger
we cook with (Zingiber) or order it from a plant catalog.  _Zingiber_ gets
big, is not frost-tolerant, and needs a lot of water.  They grow it outside
just fine in the wetter parts of Hawaii.  I don't know why they have the
same common name.  Anyone?

Agnes
kkeeler1 at unl.edu


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