Araliaceae
Chinese ginseng
Panax ginseng
- Family
- Araliaceae
- Genus
- Panax
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Common names
By language (60)
- Albanian
- Panoch ginseng
- Arabic
- جنسنغ آسيوي, اراليا, الجنسنج, الجنسنغ الصيني, الجنسنغ الكوري, الجيسينغ, اللفاح, جذر إنسان
- Armenian
- Ասիական ժենշեն
- arz
- جنسنغ آسيوى
- azb
- آسیا جینسینقی
- Azerbaijani
- Jenşen
- ba
- Ғәҙәти женьшен, Ысын женьшень
- Basque
- Ginseng
- Bulgarian
- Азиатски женшен
- Cantonese
- 高麗蔘
- Catalan
- Panax
- Chinese
- 高丽参, 高麗蔘, 人参, 人参叶, 人参子, 人参芦, 人参花, 人参须
- Croatian
- Ginseng
- cv
- Имлĕ курăкĕ
- Czech
- Ženšen pravý, Všehoj, Všehoj ženšenový
- Danish
- Ginseng-slægten
- Dutch
- Ginseng, Giseng
- English
- Chinese ginseng, Korean ginseng
- Esperanto
- Ginsengo
- Estonian
- Harilik ženšenn, Zensenn, Ženšenn
- Filipino
- Ginseng
- Finnish
- Ginseng, Gingseng, Kiinanginseng, Kiinanginsengjuuri
- French
- Ginseng
- Galician
- Ginseng
- German
- Ginseng
- Hungarian
- Ginzeng
- Icelandic
- Ginseng
- Indonesian
- Ginseng Korea
- Italian
- Panax, Ginseng
- Japanese
- オタネニンジン, コウライニンジン, チョウセンニンジン, ヤクヨウニンジン, 御種人参, 御種人參, 御種人蔘, 朝鮮人参
- Kazakh
- Tirşilik tamırı, Тіршілік тамыры, تىرشىلىك تامىرى, Женшень, Женьшень
- Korean
- 인삼, 고려인삼
- krj
- Dzinseng Asyanhën, Dzinseng Asyano, Dzinseng Koreanhën, Dzinseng Koreano, Dzinseng Tsinanhën, Dzinseng Tsino
- Kurdish
- Panax
- lah
- جنسنگ
- Latvian
- Parastais žeņšeņs, Žeņšeņs
- Lithuanian
- Ženšenis
- lzh
- 人蔘
- Macedonian
- Женшен, Женсен
- Malay
- Akar som, Ginseng cina
- Malayalam
- ജിൻസെങ്
- mnc
- ᠣᡵᡥᠣᡩᠠ
- nan
- Jîn-sim
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Ginseng
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Ekte ginseng, Asiatisk ginseng, Kinesisk ginseng, Koreansk ginseng
- Persian
- جینسنگ, جنسینگ, جینسینگ
- Polish
- Wszechlek żeń-szeń
- Portuguese
- Pânax
- Romanian
- Ginseng
- Russian
- Женьшень
- Slovak
- Všehoj ázijský
- Slovenian
- Ženšen, Ginseng
- Swedish
- Ginseng, Ginsenger
- Tajik
- Мардумгиёҳ
- Thai
- โสม
- Turkish
- Ginseng
- Turkmen
- Ženşen
- Ukrainian
- Женьшень
- vec
- Ginsen aziàtego, Ginsen cinezo, Ginsen corean
- Vietnamese
- Chi Sâm
Synonyms
- Aralia ginseng (C.A.Mey.) Baill.
- Aralia quinquefolia var. ginseng (C.A.Mey.) Anon.
- Panax chin-seng Nees
- Panax quinquefolius var. ginseng (C.A.Mey.) Regel & Maack
- Panax schin-seng var. coraiensis T.Nees
- Panax verus Oken
Photos
Photo: FloraFarm GmbH / Katharina Lohrie, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Uploaded from the French Wikipedia by Ies 13:00, 20 May 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Qirille, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Qirille, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Schölla Schwarz, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
More in Panax
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- Dwarf ginsengPanax trifoliusAraliaceae
- Panax vietnamensisAraliaceae
- Panax japonicusAraliaceae
- Panax zingiberensisAraliaceae
- Panax bipinnatifidusAraliaceae
- Panax wangianusAraliaceae
- Panax stipuleanatusAraliaceae
- Panax sokpayensisAraliaceae
- Panax assamicusAraliaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.