Stats

Lifespan: Perennial
Size: Medium
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Tropical rainforest
Range: Southeast Asia
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Bulbs
Defense: Toxins
Status: Uncommon

About

Ginger is a flowering plant whose knobby underground rhizome has been used as a spice and medicine for over 5,000 years. The plant produces tall, reed-like stems with narrow leaves and cone-shaped flower spikes, but it's the fragrant, fibrous root that made it one of the most traded spices in the ancient world.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Genus: Zingiber
Species: Zingiber officinale