Ginger

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Gardening 

CREATING fragrance in your woodland garden 

Ginger flower

African ginger
Jamaican ginger
Japanese or Korean ginger (Zingiber mioga), use in a woodland garden

White Ginger Lily  (Hedychium coronarium)

White Ginger Lily  (Hedychium coronarium)

Zingiber officinale Roscoe
F.E. Köhler, Medizinal Pflanzen, vol. 2: t. 172 (1890)
PlantIllustrated, ginger
History and Special Collections
UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

ZINGIBERACEAE FAMILY https://grassrootshorticulture.blogspot.com/2011/01/family-zingiberaceae.html

References:


Freedman, Paul. Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Print.


Keay, John. The Spice Route: A History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Print.


Krondl, Michael. The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007. Print.


Nair, K P. P. The Agronomy and Economy of Turmeric and Ginger: The Invaluable Medicinal Spice Crops. Burlington: Elsevier Science, 2013. Internet resource.

Rosengarten, Frederic. The Book of Spices: [the Colorful and Fascinating History of Spices and Their Place in the World Today]. New York: Pyramid Books, 1973. Print.


Swahn, Jan-Öjvind. The Lore of Spices: Their History, Nature and Uses Around the World. Accokeek, MD: Stoeger Pub, 2001. Print.

All material © 2021 by Jeanette Hyden for Grassroots Horticulture

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