Cardamom

Cardamom, also spelled cardamon, spice consisting of whole or ground dried fruits, or seeds.The seeds have a warm, slightly pungent, and highly aromatic flavour somewhat similar to camphor. Leafy shoots of the cardamom plant arise 1.5 to 6 metres (5 to 20 feet) from the branching rootstock. The whole fruit, 0.8 to 1.5 cm, is a green three-sided oval capsule containing 15 to 20 dark, reddish brown to brownish black, hard seeds.