What Is the Scientific Name Of Ginger? (ANSWERS)
SCIENTIFIC NAME OF GINGER – In this topic, we are going to know about the scientific name of ginger or known locally as luya.
It is a flowering plant whose root is used widely as a spice and medicine. It is also a herbacious perennial plant which grows annual pseudostems or false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves.
The plant is under the Zingiberaceae family and is akin to turmeric, cardamom, and galangal. The plant originated in Island Southeast Asia and is likely domesticated by Austronesian folk.
Ginger is derived from the Old English term gingifer, which is derived from Medieval Latin gingiber, which is from Greek zingiberis, from the Middle Indic term singabera, from Sanskrit srngaveram, which is said to have been derived from the Malayalam name inchi-ver which is derived from inci, meaning “root”.
Scientific Name
The binomial name of ginger is Zingiber officinale.
Zingiber is a genus native to Southeast Asia especially in Thailand, China, the Indian Subcontinent, and New Guinea. It is the Latin term for the word ginger.
The species name officinale is a Medieval Latin epithet which denotes organisms. It literally means “of or belonging to an officina”. It is also a neutral term for the masculin/feminine term Officinalis.