| The thickened root, a rhizome, can be beaten into a lathery pulp which can be used for soap and shampoo. |
| The medicinal part of zedoary is its rhizome, a fleshy stem that grows underground. |
| It grows from a creeping tuberous rhizome, a root-like horizontal stem growing just below the surface of the soil. |
| The plant was regenerated as of next spring, since the rhizome would survive. |
| The main axis of each is a monopodial unbranched rhizome that grows plagiotropically, with little internode elongation, below the soil surface. |
| More in north, zone 9 and 8, they could be restricted with their rhizome at each winter, to push back spring following. |
