Re: [CH]VINDALOO Cardamon
Michael Bailes (frgntgar@ozemail.com.au)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:03:50 +1100
At 8:34 AM -0800 21/2/99, Brent Thompson wrote:
>> you might be able to grow Cardamon if your climate is warm enough
>> the leaves have a delightful fragrance
>
>I have two separately acquired specimens of "cardamom" plant; both are
>identical and have a delightful fragrance to the leaves, just as you
>describe. So, I made a particular point to check the cardamom plants on
>the cardamom plantation I visited last year in Kerala, south India (where
>as far as I know most of the world's production of cardamom occurs). Those
>commercial cardamom plants have absolutely no fragrance in their leaves,
>yet I can assure you the cardamoms they produce are inarguably top quality
>and rich with the appropriate aroma. In conclusion, I have no confidence
>the aromatic plants I was sold are true cardamom.
>
Interesting Brent
naming stuff in the ginger fanmily is fraught though. there might be more
than one?
OK looked it up
Notes from Economic products of malay Peninsular:
Amonum lots of them including A subulatum and aromaticum fragrant oil from
leaves and stems of some
botany confused java malaysia different
there you are both may be cardamom?!
Life is too short.
Michael Bailes.
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