There is a difference between turmeric and Shandong ginger: turmeric is big and thick, as big as a small sweet potato, and it tastes light and yellowish. Small turmeric is small and round, but full. It's called yellow, and ginger is more delicious than ginger. In the middle, southeast and southwest of China, Xianfeng fire dragon Laifeng, Tongshan, Yangxin, Sun Yicheng, Xianning and Daye are widely planted. It is also widely cultivated in tropical Asia. Roots are used as medicine, and fresh or dried products can be used as cooking ingredients or made into pickles and sugar ginger. Aromatic oil can be extracted from stems, leaves and roots.
Ginger:
Ginger is a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae. Rootstock, yellow-green flowers, pungent smell. Plant height 0.5-1m; The rhizome is stout, multi-branched, fragrant and spicy. Leaf blade lanceolate or linear lanceolate, glabrous, sessile; Ligule membranous. The total pedicel is 25 cm long; Spike conical; Bracts ovate, light green or yellowish at the margin, with a small apex. Calyx tube is about 65438 0 cm long; Corolla yellow-green, lobes lanceolate; The central lobe of the lip is oblong and obovate.