Common name
English: Garden ginger
German: Ingwer
Mandarin: 姜 (jiang)
Portuguese: Gengibre
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Liliopsida (392)
Order: Zingiberales (26)
Family: Zingiberaceae (12)(family description)
Genus: Zingiber (3)
Epithet: officinale Roscoe (6)
Synonyms: Amomum zingiber L., Zingiber zingiber (L.) Karst.
officinale => of practical use to man; official species in commerce, especially for medicinal purposes
zingiber => Greek name derived from a Sanskrit for Ginger
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: green, yellow
External links
Check for Zingiber officinale at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [394] Zingiber officinale - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
- [1631] Zingiber officinale - Flora of China @ efloras.org