Sidestep the supermarket version and try growing your own flowering ginger varieties at home. That ugly, wrinkled rhizome, or ...

The hotter varieties of the ginger root can be indispensable ... It is advisable to add lots of compost or rotten manure in the garden. Plant one ginger plant per square foot.

It's also one of the plants that thrives under pine trees. Not to be confused with the aromatic root used in cooking, wild ginger leaves aren't fit for raw human consumption due to aristolochic ...