Cardamom requires a cool climate and as such can be successfully cultivated only at elevation over 600 m. The mature fruits, which are really pods, are hands picked and dried in barnsby means of a regulated hot air supply. Colour Pale Yellow. Major Constituents Cineol, Terpinyl Acetate, Sabine. The Black Pepper of commerce is produced from the most important species of the genus Piper of the familly Piperaceae.
Pepper is an indispensable item in the food industry.
It has subsidiary used in medicine and has more recently been reported to have insecticide properties. Sri Lanka is renowned for quality Pepper that it has been able to offer to the international market over the years. Pepper is vine with heart shaped leaves and small white flowers. The pepper vine needs to supported, and the coconut trees as well as the shade trees in tea estates are used this purpose. The plant is often found of the form mixed plantations.