Sentences with phrase «ginger plant»

Many thanks from a New Zealand girl whose mother had ginger plants in her garden!

Around A.D. 400, Chinese ships carried live ginger plants growing in ceramic pots, probably because eating the rhizomes eased seasickness — a common use in folk medicine today.

Rolled - leaf beetles today still munch on ginger plants, as shown by the characteristic damage on this leaf from Panama.

A relaxing waterfall, brilliant ginger plants and plumeria trees greet you.

This unique forest is located in the upcountry of Maui, Hawaii, and features flowering ginger plants, fragrant eucalyptus trees, and spectacular views of the island and ocean below.

Part of the therapeutic effect, say the researchers, comes from the high levels of lipids — fatty molecules — in the particles, a result of the natural lipids in the ginger plant.

Scientists have described a new beetle species that lived over 65 million years ago — not based on its fossilized skeleton, but on the distinctive chew marks the beetles left while they munched on the leaves of a ginger plant.

He had crawled into the natural funnel of a ginger plant which was being used to amplify the sound of the song.

The World Wildlife Fund recently announced that in 2006 biologists identified a record 52 new species there: 30 fish, 2 tree frogs, 16 ginger plants, 3 trees, and a large - leafed plant.

Ginger, considered a root by many people, is actually an underground stem of the ginger plant.

It may be surprising to know that the ginger plant not only produce tasty rhizomes or thick roots, which are well known for their medicinal and culinary uses, but it is also a beautiful ornamental herb.

The ginger plant, particularly its root, or rhizome, is widely known for its uses in traditional and folk medicine.

The two bedroom Main Residence, charming Garden Studio and Library Bungalow are joined by meandering stone paths surrounded by exotic orchids, ginger plants, heliconia and other colorful ornamentals.

Sreshta Rit Premnath, Rhizome, 2011; Ginger plants, soil, wood and four metallic C - prints mounted on Sintra; Dimensions variable.

Rhizome, 2011, ginger plants, soil, wood and four metallic C - prints mounted on Sintra, dimensions variable.