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Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae)

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Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica

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Common name in Jamaica: Ginger

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  1. Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA

    Ina Vandebroek

  2. Natural Products Institute, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

    David Picking

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Vandebroek, I., Picking, D. (2020). Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae). In: Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica. Advances in Economic Botany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48927-4_26

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