Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudo stems about one meter tall bearing narrow leaf blades. The inflorescence bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple edges, and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoots.

Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudo stems about one meter tall bearing narrow leaf blades. The inflorescence bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple edges, and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoots.