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Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists Zingiber officinale for USDA zones 9 to 12 in part shade with medium-to-wet moisture, at 2-4 feet tall and 2-4 feet wide, a herbaceous perennial native to tropical Asia.
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NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox lists USDA hardiness zones 9a-12b, height 2-4 feet, width 2-3 feet, partial shade (2-6 hours direct sun), and moist-to-occasionally-wet soil; it tags the species heat-tolerant and frost-tender.
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A tropical plant needing substantial warmth and humidity. Where winters drop below about 50 F it is grown as a warm-season annual or a container plant brought indoors, started fresh from a grocery-store rhizome each spring (Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder; NC State Plant Toolbox).
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Rhizomes are susceptible to bacterial and fungal rots in cold, wet conditions; root nematodes, leaf spot, and viral diseases can also affect it (Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder).