Ginger plant and root tuber, Amomum zingiber, Zingiber officinale.

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Ginger plant and root tuber, Amomum zingiber, Zingiber officinale. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by J. Schaly from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist in Augsburg, where the first edition was published.

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