CARDAMOM (Green / Choti Elaichi) Description: Cardamoms (Elettaria cardamomum) are broadly grouped into two categories, namely, small cardamom (Chhota elaichi) or true cardamom and large cardamom (Bara elaichi). The former is commercially far more important and also far more popular than the latter. In fact, it constitutes one of the most important and valued spices of the world. It is also the second most important ‘national spice’ of India, known as the ‘Queen of Spices’, being next to black pepper, called the ‘King of Spices’. It is an indispensable part of everyday cooking. Cardamom is a perennial plant with thick, fleshy branched rhizomes and several erect stems which sometimes grow upto a height of 3 m. It has very large, 30-90 cm. long, narrow with one strong median nerve and numerous faint side nerves. The flowers are about bunches. The fruits are about 1.5 cm. long, pale green to yellow in colour, somewhat oval in shape, 3-celled and many-seeded. The se
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