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- Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice.
- It lends its name to its genus and family (Zingiberaceae).
- Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal.
- The distantly related dicots in the Asarum genus have the common name wild ginger because of their similar taste.
- Ginger is indigenous to southern China, from whence it is spread to the Spice Islands and other parts of Asia, and subsequently to West Africa and to the Caribbean.
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