Ginseng Knowledge | Heil Ginseng
Look across a ginseng garden and the shade is the first thing you notice. Beneath it, roots spend years in the soil before harvest. On our Wisconsin farm, we follow those plants through three, four or five growing seasons.
American ginseng is a plant grown for its root. If you’ve seen a pale, branching root in a gift bag or slices steeping in a teapot, you may already have met it. Its botanical name is Panax quinquefolius .
American ginseng and Korean ginseng are related plants with different species names. American ginseng is Panax quinquefolius ; Korean, or Asian, ginseng is Panax ginseng . That distinction is the place to start when the bags on a shelf all say “ginseng.”