Elettaria cardamomum Brookgreen Gardens and other shade lovers

and other shade lovers

This selection has leaves that are speckled and banded with cream to white variegation

and the tree carries deep ethnobotanical weight across the native range

beside a patio or pool

settle the pitch of a slope

Elettaria cardamomum Brookgreen Gardens and other shade loversTrue cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum, is a lush, aromatic member of the ginger family and the source of green cardamom, the ancient and costly spice traded for millennia along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean. Native to the humid, evergreen hill forests of southern India and Sri Lanka, the plant grows in the dappled shade of the understory, in deep, fertile, always moist soil. Ranked historically among the most valuable spices in the world,