Crossword clues for zingiberaceae
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Zingiberaceae or the '''ginger family '''is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Many of the family's species are important ornamental, spice, or medicinal plants. Ornamental genera include the shell gingers ( Alpinia), Siam or summer tulip ( Curcuma alismatifolia), Globba, ginger lily ( Hedychium), Kaempferia, torch-ginger Etlingera elatior, Renealmia, and ginger ( Zingiber). Spices include ginger ( Zingiber), galangal or Thai ginger ( Alpinia galanga and others), melegueta pepper ( Aframomum melegueta), myoga (Zingiber mioga), korarima (Aframomum corrorima), turmeric ( Curcuma), and cardamom ( Amomum, Elettaria).
Usage examples of "zingiberaceae".
Here too, the taxonomy gets tricky because some of the Zingiberaceae have been classified by their rhizomes as well as their seed pods.
All of the other Zingiberaceae, including dried ginger, turmeric, galangal, and cardamom, are important only as medicine.