Spice Plants and Trees
Ever wondered where our regular spices come from? How are they grown? How those spice plants and trees look like? Here a quick image walk through that shall give you all answers. Also few YouTube videos are linked, fi you want you can learn more or even grow on your personal garden or even on a flower pot.
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Cardamom plant
Cardamom is a very well known spice, and commonly used in both sweet and savory dishes. Mainly two types of cardamom is available, true or green (pale to light green) and black (or deep brown). Cardamom plant is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the ginger family, native to Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. You can learn more from this links; wikiHow, Wikipedia and another Wikipedia page. There’s also a Youtube video below the image.
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Cinnamon tree
Cinnamon is well loved spice around the world. Very commonly used in sweet dishes and dessert in the western country, but it is also a common stable in savory dishes around the Asian world. It is also variedly used as flavouring ingredients in coffee, tea, many drink as well as alcohols. The spice is obtained from the inner bark of the cinnamon tree. Some type of cinnamon trees grow very big with wide trunk, rest are think tall trees. You can learn more from this Wikipedia page.
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