Zingiber officinale - Cooking Ginger - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Liliopsida 482 Order Zingiberales 66 Family Zingiberaceae 25 Subfamily Zingiberoideae 13 Tribe Zingibereae 9 Genus Zingiber 4

Zingiber officinale

Zingiber ottensii Zingiber puberulum Zingiber singapurense

Introduced

Zingiber officinale Roscoe Species

Cooking Ginger

Introduced herb species. Cultivated only.

Other common names

Garden Ginger en, Ginger en, Jiang zh, அல்லம் ta, ஆர்த்தரகம் ta, இஞ்சி ta, சுக்கு ta, வேர்க்கம்பு ta, 姜 zh, 姜叶 zh, 姜炭 zh, 姜皮 zh, 干姜 zh, 炮姜 zh, 煨姜 zh, 生姜 zh, 生姜汁 zh, 生姜皮 zh, Common Ginger en.

Distribution

Australia, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Caribbean Netherlands, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Martinique, Mayotte, Mexico, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela and Vietnam.