GINGER: This herbaceous plant, with a spicy taste and smell, exotic and very aromatic, has been used for medicinal and culinary purposes for thousands of years. The grass, up to 1m high, is cultivated in hot lands. The part of the ginger that is useful for these purposes is the root (rhizome), a tuber of thick and bulky shape that can suggest funny shapes to the imagination; On the outside, these rhizomes, fleshy and thick, are ash-colored, and between white and yellowish on the inside. The plant has elongated leaves like those of corn, which, when they barely germinate, wrap the stem with their pods. Of showy flowers, they are arranged in conical spikes