The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Panax pseudoginseng
Also called Himalayan Ginseng, Nepal Ginseng, Pseudoginseng
Panax pseudoginseng, Himalayan or Nepal ginseng, is a perennial from the mountains of Nepal and Tibet, related to true ginseng. It is grown mainly for its root and needs a cool, shaded, moist woodland-style setting.
Panax pseudoginseng is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae, native to Nepal and Tibet. Common names include pseudoginseng, Nepal ginseng and Himalayan ginseng. Pseudoginseng belongs to the same scientific genus as ginseng.
Chinese ginseng · Japanese Ginseng · South China Ginseng · American ginseng · Dwarf ginseng · Vietnamese Ginseng · Ginseng
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Panax pseudoginseng by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
