Not exact matches
A clue to its extreme age is the fact that it is grown only from a division of the
rhizomes, and not from seed — an indication that it has been under human control for so long that it has lost the ability to propagate from seed — one of the few spices
with this trait.
An experiment
with invasive grass found that the biomass and
rhizome production was severely stunted without bacteria.
Actually, the edible part of ginger is the ginger
rhizome, but the
rhizomes do have roots, so we can stick
with that moniker.
It grows as a tropical perennial
with green shoots (they almost resemble bamboo, a related
rhizome)
with lance - shaped leaves and stalks of white or yellow flowers.
They also treat chronic coughs
with a combination of fructus lycii, anemarrhena
rhizome, lily bulb, rehmannia root and unibract fritillary bulb.
Inulin is a dietary fiber extracted from the roots or
rhizomes of plants
with minimal impact on blood sugar.
Ginger has a distinctive thickened, branched
rhizome (underground stem) which sometimes looks somewhat like a swollen hand, and has a brown cork - like outer layer, and a pale yellow center
with a spicy lemon - like scent.
Have you tried it
with turmeric
rhizome / root or does the powder give you greater concentrations for less?
Fresh
rhizomes should be stored in mesh or burlap bags
with a moist sphagnum moss in a cool environment.
Plant the
rhizome sections upright, 4 - 6 inches (10 - 15 cm) deep, and covered
with two inches (5 cm) of soil.
If you've ever eaten chicken curry or cooked
with curry powder, you've likely tasted ground turmeric root or
rhizome, a slightly bitter and nutritious spice that doubles as a free radical scavenging herb
with active compounds and antioxidant properties that have long been praised in the natural health world.
The
rhizome is the food storage center of the plant, which is packed
with nutrients and used to grow new plants.
Turmeric
rhizome is the thick orange horizontal stem of the plant, found underground in a cluster
with thin roots shooting out from underneath its various nodes.
The Zingiberaceae family includes flowering plants, mostly aromatic perennial herbs, such as turmeric, ginger, and cardamom, which have tuberous
rhizomes (underground stems
with roots and nodes) that are often used to color condiments, used as a spice in South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking, used in textile dyes, used in religious ceremonies, or used medicinally.
So it was
with very little hesitation which I bought the follow up and it turns out this is also a fantastic game and one which has crept into my brain and planted
rhizomes, utterly entrancing me for the last week or so.
In a horticultural sense,
rhizomes are the below surface horizontal splay of roots, each
with offshoots creating a uniquely, meandering path.
And whereas bamboo regrows from its
rhizome roots, Paulownia is similarly credited
with rapidly regrowing, although in its case via coppicing from the same root, helping to stabilise soils.
To establish mondo, which is cold hardy to zones 5 - 6 in protected areas (against a house or under a tree) and spreads by underground
rhizomes, start
with plants placed every 6 to 8 inches apart in soil amended
with 2 inches of organic matter worked into the top 6 inches of soil.
You may think you've killed it
with hardcore weed - killer, but according to the Environment Agency (EA),
rhizomes can remain dormant in the ground for as long as 20 years.