Amomum From Zingiberaceae Family

Amomum is a genus of plant native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Queensland. It includes several breed of cardamom, abnormally atramentous cardamom. Plants of this brand are arresting for their acerbity and ambrosial properties.

Amomum Pictures

Among age-old writers, the name amomum was ascribed to assorted ambrosial plants that cannot be absolutely articular today. The chat derives from Latin amomum, which is the latinisation of the Greek ἄμωμον (amomon), a affectionate of an Indian aroma plant. Edmund Roberts acclaimed on his 1834 cruise to China that amomum was activated as a aroma to "season candied dishes," in comestible practice.

Here List of Amomum species for a complete list:

• Amomum aculeatum
• Amomum aromaticum
• Amomum austrosinense
• Amomum costatum (black cardamom)
• Amomum dallachyi
• Amomum dealbatum
• Amomum foetens
• Amomum gracile
• Amomum longiligulare
• Amomum longipes
• Amomum ovoideum
• Amomum magnificum
• Amomum odontocarpum
• Amomum sahyadricum
• Amomum subulatum (black cardamom)
• Amomum testaceum
• Amomum truncatum
• Amomum tsaoko
• Amomum villosum
• Amomum xanthioides (black cardamom seed)