Green cardamom, Packaging Size : 5-25kg

Cardamom is said to be the queen of spices. It is a perennial herb with thick, fleshy rhizomes or underground stems, shooting leaf roots and white or pale green tree-celled flowers. The flowers produce green husklike pod capsules that contain seeds. The seeds are small black and sticky. Cardamom is commercially used as the dried fruit of Elettaria Cardamom.

Cardamom is a perennial herb that can reach a height of between 2 to almost 6 m. The sword shaped leaves of the plant are dark green in colour which are about 2 inches long. The small, yellowish flowers grow in loose racemes on prostrate flower stems. The fruit has 3 chambers filled with small aromatic seeds, each about 3 mm long. It is better to store the fruit in pod form, because once the seeds are exposed or ground, they quickly lose their flavour.

Cardamom grows in the tropics, wild and in plantations. It is traditionally grown in partially cleared tropical rain forests, leaving some shade. The plant requires humid and moderately cool climate, filtered sunlight obtained from tree canopy, humus rich soil, well-distributed rainfall and protection from heavy winds.