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Cardamom is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the Genera Elettaria and Amomum in the family Zingiberaceae. Both genera are native to the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. They are recognized by their small seed pods: triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery outer shell and small, black seeds.

Species used for cardamom are found in India, Guatemala, Malaysia and Tanzania. By 2000, Guatemala had become the biggest producer and exporter of cardamom in the world, followed by India.

The two main types of cardamom are:

• True or green cardamom (or white cardamom, when bleached) comes from the species Elettaria cardamomum and is distributed from India to Malaysia. What is often referred to as white cardamom is actually Siam cardamom, Amomum kreryanh.
• Black cardamom, also known as brown, greater, large, longer or Nepal cardamom, comes from species Amomum subulatum and is native to the eastern Himalayas and mostly cultivated in Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, and parts of Darjeeling district in West Bengal of India and southern Bhutan.