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Cardamoms anyone? (Was Oxalis Tuberosa)
"A.Malhotra" wrote in
: Victoria Clare wrote: And can you actually grow cardamoms from, well, cardamoms from a spice pot, or do you need special seed as per the catalogue? I am a big cardamom fan, so if the leaves smell like the seeds, I shall soon be acquiring a new house plant one way or the other. . . I've no experience of trying to grow cardamom but I think that most of the culinary stock would be rather too old to do well. Re growing it as a houseplant, its quite a big plant, related to ginger. But the plant itself is not especially beautiful and I don't think any other part of the plant carries the aroma. Anita Very interesting - spurred on by this, I did some web research, and found to my surprise that there are several plants referred to as 'cardamom' - Elettaria cardamomum Maton seems likely to be the one you saw. I did find some postings on various bulletin boards from people who were mostly looking for advice themselves - but a number of them mentioned scented leaves - maybe more noticeable when plant is inside in a pot? I also found a few pics: http://www.desert- tropicals.com/Plants/Zingiberaceae/Elettaria_cardamomum.html and http://plantsdatabase.com/go/862/ and it does indeed look very much like ginger. Been there, and it was a bit dull, so I may not bother again. According to http://www.sunderland.com/vi/mowgard.htm they were planning to grow them in the Winter Gardens in Sunderland. Anyone been and know if they do? Victoria Clare |
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Cardamoms anyone? (Was Oxalis Tuberosa)
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:28:19 +0000, Victoria Clare
wrote: "A.Malhotra" wrote in : Victoria Clare wrote: And can you actually grow cardamoms from, well, cardamoms from a spice pot, or do you need special seed as per the catalogue? I am a big cardamom fan, so if the leaves smell like the seeds, I shall soon be acquiring a new house plant one way or the other. . . i took some cardomoms with me to thailand and planted them in a garden in what i thought would be ideal conditions but nothing. plenty hot and humid too. strange that the local thais had never seen them before. i dont want to even contemplate growing curry leaves.. |
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