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Of the two, small cardamom is the more heavily produced globally, at a ratio of 3:2 as of 2006 .The antiquity of small cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum Maton)), dates back to approximately 3000 BCE. A native to the Western Ghats of India ,this Queen of Spices belongs to the family (Zingiberaceae)and is the third most expensive spice in the world.
Cardamom prefers warm (10 to 35C) and humid (with 1500 mm of well-distributed rainfall) mountain slopes at 6001500 m elevation, unde