Ginger

Also known as Common Ginger, True Ginger, Garden Ginger, Canton Ginger

Ginger thrives in warm, humid tropical climates, producing dense clusters of reed-like leafy stems from thick, aromatic underground rhizomes. Centuries of vegetative propagation have rendered cultivated plants essentially sterile, so populations almost never set seed and rely entirely on rhizome division to reproduce. Its cone-like flowering spikes emerge on separate leafless shoots directly from the soil, displaying pale yellow blooms tipped with vibrant purple.