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Although there is no known medicinal value in ginseng, there is a continuing demand for the root. Two species ofPanax are acceptable sources, one Asiatic, the other North American. As a crop, ginseng is no gold mine, but may give a reasonable return to growers willing to wait the five to seven years required for maturation.

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  1. Economic Botanist, New Crops Research Branch, Crops Research Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

    Louis O. Williams

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Williams, L.O. Ginseng. Econ Bot 11, 344–348 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02903815

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