Ginger – Advanced – Zingiber officianale
$40.00
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10 in stock
SKU: 0179P
Category: Plants
Tags: Common Ginger, Zingiber officianale, Zingiberaceae
Plant family: Zingiberaceae
Plant origin: South East Asia.
Fruit description:
Flowers: Common Ginger flowers are greenish yellow.
The flower is about 30 cm high, with a waxy cone shaped top and folding petals.
Growing conditions: Ginger is a hardy, perennial evergreen plant that grows to about 1 metre high. The stems are cane like, the leaves long, pointed and soft. It grows in any warm climate but likes tropical or subtropical climates. The plant is dormant in Winter, vigorous in other seasons. It likes plenty of water in the growing seasons, little or none in Winter. Protect the plant from hot sun, preferably shaded by other plants which also maintains humidity. Protect the plant from frost and cold wet soil. Let your common ginger plants clump and harvest the rhizomes as you need them. Gingers grow well in pots. It is a handsome plant used to give a tropical feel to a landscape.
Uses: The common cooking variety Ginger is used in Asian cooking. Use the fleshy rhizome, grated or in slices that you can remove after cooking. You can also use the juice. It has a pungent warm aroma and a pepper-hot flavour. For all Gingers, the young rhizomes have thin skin and a milder flavour than the old ones. The dried ground common Ginger rhizome can be used to spice cakes, biscuits especially gingerbread, puddings, marinades. Use fresh or dried ginger to make ginger beer, cordial, teas. Pickle the ginger rhizome in vinegar or sherry for storage. Pickled ginger often accompanies sushi handrolls and other Japanese cooking. Preserve it, make syrup or crystallize it, for snacks or to be used in cooking - such as fig and ginger jam, gingerbread, in desserts and confectionery. Ginger can be frozen.
Ginger flowers are used in floral arrangements.
Medicinal uses: Ginger is excellent in the prevention of travel sickness and to treat nausea. Ginger is widely used in traditional medicines in many Asian cultures.
Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating.
Harvest time You can harvest the edible fleshy rhizome or underground stem of common Ginger anytime but the new rhizomes with thin skin and mild flavour are harvested in Winter. You can also eat the young green shoots for a mild flavour.
Plant relatives Kencur;Cape York Lily;Red Torch Ginger;White Fragrant Ginger;Turmeric;Galangal;Katchai
Special features: In the ginger family there are about 20 species which are edible.
Grown by method: Root Division Pot size: 300mm
Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 1 metres high by 1 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 1 metres high by 1 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.
Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: 300mm