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Rhizome of ginger is like roots of other plants grown underground. Despite this fact ginger is a stem not a root - Justify.

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Rhizome of ginger is a underground stem not a root because, it possess nodes, internodes, scale leaves & buds, which are the characteristics of stem.
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