Summary ²

Elettaria, common names green cardamom, true cardamom, and Ceylon cardamom (E. repens), is a genus of one or two species of cardamoms, native to southeastern Asia from India south to Sri Lanka and east to Malaysia and western Indonesia, where it grows in tropical rainforests.

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