Talk:Ginger

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Contents 1 Green Ginger Wine 2 Origin 3 Image 4 Sushi 5 Disambiguation page eliminated 6 native to? 7 How do you grow ginger? 8 Will ginger cause scarring? 9 Powdered ginger vs root ginger 10 Copyright Violation, Medicinal Uses 11 Ginger 12 Costus 13 krachai

[edit] Green Ginger Wine

Green Ginger wine isn't anything like ginger beer - I've removed the suggestion that it is, and tieded up the text round there.

Nick Atty 10:58, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin

There is a rival theory that the word ginger derives from Sanskrit word "Shrnga-vera". Please refer Megasthenes' "Indika" for more information.

[edit] Image

A ginger plant

This article is about Zingiber officinale, however the picture is of Alpinia zerumbet. Are Alpinia zerumbet rhizomes even edible? Please delete this image. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KP Botany (talk • contribs) .

How can you tell? It looks like ginger to me. And even if it were the wrong species, we wouldn't delete it, just remove it from this article. —Keenan Pepper 01:51, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I can tell because Zingiber officinale and Alpinia zerumbet are different plants. The flowers of Zingiber officinale are yellow green and purple arising from a low dense spike, the flowers of Alpinia zerumbet are pink, yellow and red and hang down on a showy raceme.

This article is about Zingiber officinale, a specific member of the Zingiberaceae. The picture should be of what the article is about, Zingiber officinale, not of any other member of the Zingiberaceae, such as Alpinia zerumbet.

Here are some links to pictures and brief descriptions of both plants:

http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week281.shtml http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/koehler/INGWER.jpg http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week064.shtml http://www.virtualherbarium.org/gl/alpineazerumbet.JPG

I'm only asking that the picture be deleted from this article, not from Wikipedia--the article on Alpinia zerumbet would be a great location on Wikipedia for a picture of the inflorescence of Alpinia zerumbet. If there is a picture of one inflorescence in an article about Zingiber officinale it should be a picture of Zingiber officinale. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KP Botany (talk • contribs) .

I'm confused. Which image are you talking about? —Keenan Pepper 17:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see the confusion. I'm talking about the picture of Alpinia zerumbet flowers labeled "Flowers of the ginger plant." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KP Botany (talk • contribs) .

Please sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). I removed the image from this article (which you were welcome to do yourself, BTW) and made a comment at its talk page Commons:Image talk:Ginger-flower.jpg. —Keenan Pepper 23:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sushi

Which kind of ginger is served on the side with sushi? Is it myoga? --LostLeviathan 02:08, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• No, it's generally pickled ginger root sliced very thin -- jd

[edit] Disambiguation page eliminated

I've removed the disambiguation page which was previously Ginger and moved Ginger root to Ginger. The old disambig page is reproduced below:

Reason for getting rid of this page: It did not comply with disambiguation policy; the listed entries, with the exception of the Segway codename, were not actually disambiguating anything (did not point to relevant Wikipedia articles on the subjects in question). The Segway codename is not relevant enough to justify a disambig page, which is particularly true since the vast majority of the links to Ginger refer to the plant.--Eloquence* 04:15, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

I've added more entries and moved the page to Ginger (disambiguation). Please note that the above transclusion is automatically the current version; for the version as at Eloquence's comment, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ginger_%28disambiguation%29&oldid=14390729 . --Zigger «º» 05:53, 2005 May 29 (UTC)

[edit] native to?

Does anyone know where ginger is native to?

[edit] How do you grow ginger?

 Does anyone know how to grow ginger?
  Is it as simple as sticking a piece of ginger into the ground?
  Is there a special time of the year when this should be done?
  Is watering necessary?
  Should the piece of ground where ginger is planted be exposed to the sun?
  Any hints on growing ginger would be appreciated.
 Thanks.

[edit] Will ginger cause scarring?

Some Chinese herbal doctors believe that consuming ginger after an injury will accelerate the healing of the wounds. The fast healing have an undesirable side effect of forming a fiberous protrusion that looks like a smooth scar. I wonder if there are clinical studies of this effect. Kowloonese 23:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Powdered ginger vs root ginger

The comment:

"Powdered dry ginger is used to add spiciness to gingerbread and other recipes. It tastes quite different from fresh ginger, and neither can be substituted for the other."

is inaccurate. I know this because I've just made gingerbread using root ginger and it came out quite well. I've modified the paragraph.

[edit] Copyright Violation, Medicinal Uses

Medicinal Uses section is an outrigfht copy of this page: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsHerbs/Gingerch.html Chicbicyclist 23:28, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Only the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are, and although that's not how your supposed to do it, as it's just a section in question i'm going to go ahead and simply delete those paragraphs. the anti-inflammatory properties will be mentioned and cited. --He:ah? 23:44, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ginger

In an episode of Dr. Who, the Doctor asks, "Am I ginger?" referring to his hair color. This article currently contains no information on the use of the term "ginger" for color. Could anyone elaborate on that? --LostLeviathan 04:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

From Ginger (disambiguation):

• Ginger is a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown colour. By extension, ginger can also refer to red hair. —Keenan Pepper 04:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Costus

Where do the Costus spiral gingers fit into this? I'm no biologist, but I stumbled across the genus as a nectar source for hermit hummingbirds. jimfbleak 06:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] krachai

The article lists krachai in the paragraph "Another plant in the Zingiberaceae family, galangal, is used for similar purposes as ginger in Thai cuisine. Galangal is also called Thai ginger. Also referred to as galangal, fingerroot (Boesenbergia rotunda), or Chinese ginger or the Thai krachai, is used in cooking and medicine." According to Thai Food by David Thompson, grachai is a separate plant, referred to as "Wild Ginger". It is not the same as galangal. I have updated the page in the section on related items.