2007-08-03 22:00:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Agriculture
If you are asking about the ginger you find in the spice rack or the fresh rhizomes in the produce department of your grocery store, it's really not that unusual. It is easily grown indoors or in your garden. You can start plants right from the fresh rhizomes from the store. It is a herbaceous perennial plant (Zingiber officinale), or its aromatic, pungent rhizome, which is used as a spice, flavouring, food, and medicine. It also makes a nice house plant
Ginger that grows wild in much of the eastern USA as far wast as Missouri is a different plant altogether, and is an unusual plant. Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense) is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach 12 inches in height.
Leaves: This plant has basal leaves only. Leaves can be as wide as 15 cm (6inches). The two heart shaped leaves are entire, have a shinny surface and the leaf stem is hairy at the base. It is hard to find, grows in rich woods, and receives a very high price to those who hunt and harvest the small rhizomes. I'm guessing this is the ginger that you are referring to.
2007-08-04 05:38:33 · answer #1 · answered by john h 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ginger is indeed unusual, in America (I mean all Americas) it grows widely, and it is an exquisite and beautiful plant. What rare is why this plant being so nice, bronchial expansor for asthma (prepared as a tea), aromatic with strong curative effects is not cropped industrially, The essential oils from the rhizome are used in medicine, spice in foods, antiseptic, additionally it have a special hot but exquisite flavor to please the most demanding pleasure of the gourmets. It is very easy to grow ginger at home, try it in a pot and you will be very pleased having it with you..
2007-08-06 07:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by mc23571 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AWFUL QUESTION!
unusual compared to what? in what situation? in what location?
do you mean ginger hair, the spice, or the plant???
sheesh, how will i vent the anger your question has provoked in me without getting banned from this site?
2007-08-06 01:54:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well idont really find any thing that is unusual abt it
2007-08-04 01:52:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, she was a red-headed 'movie star' who was so hot she never had to cook and all the men drooled over her...
2007-08-04 18:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by enn 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋