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Posted by Jamus_S SA Australia (My Page) on

Sun, Nov 7, 04 at 21:52

I'm constantly hearing that the leaves of cardamom smell like cardamom seed, but in my experience this is not the case. I have what I assume is cardamom and it's leaves are very fragrant but smell more like cinnamon with a gingery note than like cardamom seed. The essential oil composition of the leaves seems to be very different from that of the fruit. Perhaps people sniff the leaves expecting to smell cardamom and are thus influenced by the power of suggestion. A better experiment would be to offer a crushed leaf to a "blind" subject, not teling them what it SHOULD smell like, and wait for the unbiased verdict.

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Posted by Solanum Qld Aust (My Page) on
Tue, Nov 9, 04 at 16:12

According to P. Recher from Fruit Spirit Botanical Gardens (he was a few times on Gardening Australia), a lot of what is sold as Cardamon is in fact Alpinia sp. He mentions A. calcarata but mine flowered for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it looks much more like A. speciosa...

Here is a link that might be useful: cardamon

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Posted by
Dr. Paul Recher
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Sun, Jun 3, 07 at 14:06

Alpinia calcarata and speciosa and other ALpinias have similar smelling leaves.

A. cal. is a smallish ginger up to 1m w/o fleshy rhizomes w/o particularily attractive flwrs

A. spwec. has very attractive fowers, fleshy rhizomes, an dis more robust reaching over 2m

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Posted by puya (My Page) on
Sun, Mar 16, 08 at 5:33

Jerk Knuckle. Now I think I know who he is! Can you help me Doctor?

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Sat, Feb 28, 09 at 13:13

puya-----jerk knuckle....my expression...where do we know each other?

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