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Can you share a picture of your plants?
Nice! Yours does look like the pinecone aka 'shampoo ginger'. It is supposed to have a nice smell when you squeeze the cones. People do use it as an ingredient in shampoo in Asia.
Thanks for sharing the pic Flgardengirl. Do those green cones turn kinda reddish colored later? The reason I ask is because i have a plant that looks similar to yours and wanted to know if its an edible one. I got it at a yard sale and the lady said it was a type of ginger plant. The cones hold alot of a water if you sqeese them . I guess thats what it is . I just dont know. Also edited to say you can see tiny white flowers on the cones. I googled it and the best I can tell it is called "pinecone ginger" and you can wash your hair with the juice that comes out of it. now it makes me wonder if I can eat the "root" LOL!
I bought my 'grocery store ginger' at a farmer's market. I could get several tubers pretty cheap that way. One time I bought a huge bag of them marked down at Save A Lot. They bag up some of their produce sometimes and sell it cheap when its about to go bad lol. The tubers were kinda shriveled so I soaked them in some warm water for a day to rehydrate them and then planted them. They all came up.FlgardenGirl-- this is a most extrordinary plant. I've never seen anything like it!! The flower though remind me of orchids.
I bought a large rhizome on Monday!!! Now I"m wondering which variety of ginger is in our markets?
Quote: LOL, since you bought it at the groccery, I expect it would be edible. he he he Is it a starchy root? LIke potato or yam, or is it flavoring like the ginger?