Zingiberaceae
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Zingiberaceae, the ginger family, is a family of flowering plants containing 59 genera and about 1600 described species distributed globally in the tropics and subtropics. They are aromatic perennial
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Zingiber officinale rhizome
Curcuma longa
Elettaria cardamomum
Turmeric
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Turmeric, or Curcuma longa, is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae. It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires
Zingiberaceae
…officinale), Thai ginger (Alpinia galanga and others), melegueta pepper (Aframomum melegueta), myoga (Zingiber mioga), korarima (Aframomum corrorima), turmeric (Curcuma longa L.), Javanese ginger (Curcuma zanthorrhiza) and cardamom (Amomum and Elettaria species). Many of these spices contain either of the…
Turmeric inflorescence
Curcuma longa roots
Botanical view of Curcuma longa
Curcuma domestica Valeton, a drawing by A. Bernecker around 1860