Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. A member of the ginger family, turmeric, also known as Curcuma longa, is a flowering plant whose rhizomes (roots) appear ...

Turmeric is a flowering plant, Curcuma longa of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, the rhizomes of which are used in cooking. The plant is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the ...