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Wild ginger



 
  Wild ginger may refer to any of a variety of plants, often with a similar appearance, odour or taste to cultivated ginger. Species involved include:

  • Any of the Alpinia
    Alpinia

    Alpinia is a genus of plants, with more than 230 species from the Ginger family .DNA sequence-based methods have shown that this genus is polyphyletic....
     species, especially A. caerulea
    Alpinia caerulea

    Alpinia caerulea, native ginger, is an understorey perennial herb to 3 m., growing under rainforest, gallery forest and wet sclerophyll forest canopy in eastern Australia....
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  • Any of the Asarum
    Asarum

    Asarum is a genus of plants comprising about 10 species in the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae, commonly known as Wild ginger.Asarum canadense is native to the forests of eastern North America....
     species, especially A. caudatum
    Asarum caudatum

    Asarum caudatum is native to rich moist forests of western North America from British Columbia to California and as far east as western Montana....
  • Curcuma australasica
  • Asiasarum sieboldi
  • Any of the numerous Zingiber
    Zingiber

    The genus Zingiber contains the true gingers, a set of plants with medicinal and culinary value in many parts of the world. The most well-known is Ginger, garden ginger....
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