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Profile of the cardamom plant. ... Cardamom is native to India and Sri Lanka where it occurs in the wild. It has been introduced all over all over tropical Asia where it is cultivated. The plant grows in a thick clump of up to 20 leafy shoots. It can reach a height of between 2 ... Image: A cardamom plant growing at Kew Gardens.
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History of the cardamom plant. ... Cardamom plants grow wild in parts of the monsoon forests of the Western Ghats in southern India. This area has become known as the Cardamom Hills, and until just 200 years ago wild plants from these hills provided most of the world's supply of cardamom. ... Choose a plant...
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I have a cardamom plant in my front yard planted about five years ago. It's at least six feet square and about four feet high. I really have to hack it back to keep it from overrunning the entire front garden. Last year it flowered (only one single stalk) that looked like an orchid.
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Perhaps the widest misidentification in horticulture, the majority of cardamom plants sold in the US, are, in fact the Cinnomon Ginger, Alpinia nutans. ...
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Cardamom pods and cardamom seeds sold at wholesale prices! Great Cardamom spice. ... The Cardamom Plant ... The cardamom plant has a thick fleshy root called a rhizome, or an under ground stem from which shoots emerge. Cardamom produces beautiful little, lightly colored flowers that appear most of the year and produce the...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on cardamom (plant), spice consisting of whole or ground dried fruit, or seeds, of Elettaria cardamomum, a herbaceous perennial of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). The seeds have a warm, slightly pungent, and highly aromatic flavour somewhat reminiscent of camphor. ... The whole fruit,
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The cardamom plant is a perennial herb with a tuberous horizontal rhizome, sending up from eight to twenty erect, simple, smooth, green and shining, perennial stems, which rise from six to twelve feet in height, and bear alternate elliptical-lanceolate sheathing leaves.
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This forum is provided for the discussion of herbs and herbalism. ... Couldn't resist buying a cardamom plant at a local market recently. Has anyone had a cardamom flower and set seed in Victoria? I was thinking it could be similar to ornamental gingers as far as climate requirements go?
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Cardamom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I want to grow Cardamom plant at home ! Can somebo ... I want to grow Cardamom plant at home ! Can somebody guide me please ? where I can get Cardamom plant at Bombay ? Cardamom Plant; Cardamom Cultivation; Cardamom; Cardamom plantation...
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