Detailed Description Galangal is a member of the tropical ginger family, and has a sharp, strong aroma and hot, clean taste.Like ginger, the edible parts are the knobbly, orange-brown rhizomes (young rhizomes have a pink hue).Galangal can be used fresh - peeled and grated or chopped - and in dried or powder form. Flowers on first year growth and is cold hardy to negative 10!!