The bulbous parts you see in shops are actually called 'Rhizomes', however most places call them 'ginger root' to avoid confusion(the actual roots grow out of the Rhizomes, and they are rarely used in food).
The leaves can be used to flavour food, and the flowers are also edible.
The roots are only part of the plant you should use. The end of the roots should be yellow/tan and the roots should be firm. If green, mold be present and could be within the whole root. Ginger roots should be stored in the fridge until use. When you use the root, cut off as much as you'll need, cut off the brown outer skin, discard it, and cut the ginger as you'll need it for the dish.
It depends. If the wild ginger your talking about is a spice, then yes. The spice ginger comes from a flower. But not red ginger also known as ginger flower or alpinia purpurata. Hmmm...well if you are talking about spice ginger, then it is a flowering plant. The ginger comes from the tuber which it grows underground. The ginger you see in the supermarket is called Jamaican ginger. The problem here is the word flower. a flower is only part of a plant but in common usage has become the word for flowering plant. In answer to the question I think, wild ginger is a plant that has flowers.
The part used tomake thespice is thebottom part
The ginger is the root of the plant.
The part of the plant that ginger comes from is the rhizome or the underground stem of the plant. One medicinal use of ginger is for the treatment of nausea.
Ground Ginger comes from the ground lol it comes from plants!!!!!!!
In rhizomes - i.e the 'root ginger' part of the ginger plant, and the 'potato' part of the potato plant. Howeve the potato is a tuber, not a rhizome.
Ginger is part of a large group of flowering plants, with about 1,400 species. As a cooking ingredient, ginger is available in three types: white, black and Thai. You can buy ginger in a variety of forms: fresh, dried, pickled, preserved, candied or ground. It has been cultivated for thousands of years as a spice and medicine. Besides the culinary and medicinal uses of ginger, it is also an interesting ornamental plant. Patterned foliage, deliciously perfumed flowers in a rainbow palette of colors and surprising seedpods make ginger plants noteworthy and seductive.
The bulb of the ginger root can be planted again as it is like the seed of the plant.
cardomom is an spice used in Asian food!
No, ginger is a plant, or part of a plant. It contains both acidic and basic components. The main component of the essential oil of ginger is zingiberene, which is a hydrocarbon; neither an acid nor an alkaline.
The "clove" used as a spice (in pickling, etc.) is the dried flower bud of a tropical tree.
Ginger, as a spice or whole, is a root. That root is able to sprout after being harvested, making whole raw ginger a good investment in my opinion.