Maidenhead Ferns
Maidenhead Ferns grow in similar environments to ginseng, and they have the coolest black stems.
Maidenhead Ferns grow in similar environments to ginseng, and they have the coolest black stems.
George Lindemann Showing Wild Ginseng Locations to Dr. Gao and Research Team
Sam Lindemann researches in the field.
Making sure that the plants identified are Ginseng by digging up a plant, tasting, and examining the root.
Sam Lindemann marking Wild Ginseng with flags.
September 1 is the beginning of ginseng season on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau. Towards the end of the summer the plant has produced seeds which fall of the stem, and some, two years latter become new ginseng plants. Wild American Ginseng is a threatened species, and is protected by the United Nations CITES treaty. Because of…
Wild American Ginseng Published in the Spring 2019 Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation by George Lindemann Toward the end of April 2018, the Chinese Government imposed a tariff on imported wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). This little known wild root has somehow gotten into the middle of a brewing American/ Chinese trade war. I am…