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Table 1 Species of Ginseng belonging to the genus Panax.

From: Pharmacogenomics and the Yin/Yang actions of ginseng: anti-tumor, angiomodulating and steroid-like activities of ginsenosides

Scientific name

Common name (English name)

Geographical distribution

Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer

Asian ginseng

Orient Ginseng

Chinese Ginseng

Korean Ginseng

Red Ginseng

White Ginseng

Tartary Ginseng

Tartary Root

Kirin Ginseng

Korea

Japan

China

Russia

Germany

Panax japonicus C.A. Meyer

Japanese Ginseng

ChiKu

East, Middle-south, South and South Yunnan

Japan

Panax bipinnatifidus Seem

Feather-leaf bamboo ginseng

Feather-leaved bamboo ginseng

Hubei, China

Nepal

Eastern Himalayas

Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H. Chen

Sanchi Ginseng

Tienchi Ginseng

Sanchu Ginseng

Notoginseng

San-qi ginseng

Tien-qi ginseng

Yunnan ginseng

Yunnan, Guangxi

Guangdong, China

Panax omeiensis J. Wen

Omei ginseng

Sichuan, China

Nepal

Eastern Himalayas

Panax pseudoginseng Wallich

Himalayan Ginseng

South Tibet

Nepal

Eastern Himalayas

Panax quinquefolius L.

American Ginseng

Occidental Ginseng

Canadian Ginseng

Northeast, North, East China

Southern Canada

America (from Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida and west to Oklahoma)

Panax stipuleanatus H.T. Tsai and K.M. Feng

Pingpien ginseng

Baisanqi

Tusangi

Yesangi

Zhujie qi

Southern Yunnan, China

Panax trifolius L.

Dwarf ginseng

Groundnut

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and further south

Panax wangianus S.C. Sun

Narrow-leaved pseudoginseng

Sichuan, China

Panax vietnamensis Ha et Grushv.

Bamboo ginseng

Vietnamese Ginseng

 

Panax zingiberensis C.Y. Wu and K.M. Feng

Ginger ginseng

Ginger-like Pseudo-ginseng

Yunnan, China

  1. [References: 5, 8, 9, MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE-http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Panax.html#bipinnatifidus and Ginseng: A Concise Handbook. Edited by James A, Duke. Reference Publications, Inc. 1989. Michigan, USA]