- BrandZAHRA
- Country of manufactureIndia
Cardamom
Botanical name : Elettaria Cardamomum Maton
Family : Zingiberaceae
Commercial part : Fruit (Capsule)
Description
Cardamom of commerce is the dried ripe fruit (capsules of cardamom plant) often referred as the �Queen of Spices� because of its very pleasant aroma and taste. Cardamom is a perennial, herbaceous, rhizomatous ginger like plant. Plants are of medium size ranges between 2 to 4 mtr height.
Types
Cardamom is available in the international markets as 3 different grades
1. Alleppey Green Extra bold (AGEB)
2. Alleppey Green Bold(AGB)
3. Alleppey Green Superior (AGS)
Name in international languages
Spanish : Cardamomo
French : Cardamome
German : Kardamom
Swedish : Kardemumma
Arabic : Hal
Dutch : Kardemom
Italian : Cardamomo
Portuguese : Cardamomo
Russian : Kardamon
Japanese : Karudamon
Chinese : Pai-tou-k'ou
Pepper
Botanical name : Piper nigrum L.
Family : Piperaceae
Commercial part : Fruit
Description
Black Pepper is the dried mature berry of Piper nigrum, a climbing, perennial shrub mostly found in hot, moist region of Southern India. Under cultivation pepper vines are trailed over support as columns, 5-6 meter tall, 1-2 meter diameter. The climbing woody stems have swollen nods with clinging roots at each node, which helps in anchoring the vine to the support trees (standards). It has straight upward growing main stem and have lateral shoots from the axils of the leaves having shorter inter nodes without adventitious roots. In such branches the terminal buds get modified into an inflorescence (spike) and the auxiliary buds continue further growth.
White Pepper and Black Pepper
Name in international languages
Spanish : Pimienta
French : Poivre
German: Pfeffer
Swedish: Peppar
Arabic : Filfil Aswad
Dutch : Peper
Italian : Pepe
Portuguese : Pimenta
Russian : Pyerets
Japanese : Kosha
Chinese : Hu-Chiao
Clove
Botanical name : Syzygium aromaticum
Family : Myrtaceae
Commercial part : Unopened flower bud
Description
The clove of commerce is the air-dried unopened flower bud obtained from evergreen medium sized tree. The tree grows to a height of 10-12 mtrs and start flowering in about 7 years. It continues to produce flower buds for 80 or more years. It is a valuable spice of the orient. Clove clusters are plucked by hand when the buds are fully developed with a pronounced pink flush and then dried over several days in the sun. Unopened flower buds, leaves and stalks yield essential oil.
Name in international languages
Arabic : Kabsh ,Qarunfil
Chinese : Ding xiang
French : Clou de girofle
Indonesian : Cengkeh
German : Nelke
Nutmeg and Mace
Botanical name : Myristica fragrans
Family : Myristicaceae
Commercial part : Seed
Description
Nutmeg & Mace are two distinctly different spices produced from a fruit of an evergreen tree usually 9-12 mtr high. Mace is the dried reticulated �aril� of the fruit and nutmeg is the dried seed kernel of the fruit. The trees are normally unisexual, bearing either male or female flowers. The male flowers are born in clusters, whereas female flowers are often solitary. Fruit is a fleshy drupe, spherical in shape, pale yellow in colour with a longitudinal groove in the centre. When the fruit mature it burst open along the groove exposing the bright attractive mace, covering the hard black, shiny shell of the seed called nutmeg.
Name in international languages
Arabic : Jouza at-Teeb
Chinese : Dou kou shu
Dutch : Nootmuskaat
French : Muscade
German : Muskatnu
Greek : Moschokarido
Indonesia : Pala
Italian : Noce moscata
Spanish : Moscada
Dry Ginger
Botanical name : Zingiber officinale Roscoe
Family : Zingiberaceae
Commercial part : The rhizome
Description
Ginger of commerce is the dried underground stem of the herbaceous tropical plant grown as an annual. The whole plant is refreshingly aromatic and the underground rhizome, raw or processed, is valued as spice. Ginger is a slender perennial herb, 30-50 cm tall with palmately branched rhizome bearing leafy shoots. The leafy shoot is a pseudostem formed by leaf sheath and bears 8 to 12 distichous leaves.
Dry Turmeric
Botanical name : Curcuma longa L.
Family : Zingiberaceae
Commercial part : Rhizome or underground stem
Description
Turmeric is the boiled, dried, cleaned and polished rhizomes of Curcuma longa. The plant is a herbaceous perennial, 60-90 cm high, with a short stem and tufted leaf. There are 7 to 12 leaves, the leaf sheaths forms the pseudo stem. The lamina is green above and pale green below and has a length of 30-40 cm and width 8-12 cm. Inflorescence is a central spike of 10-15 cm length. 1-4 flowers are born in axil of the bract opening one at a time. About 30 flowers are produced in a spike. Seeds are produced in capsules and there will be one to numerous sunken capsules in an inflorescence.
Name in international languages
Spanish : Curcuma
French : Curcuma
German : Kurkuma Gelbwurzel
Swedish : Gurkmeja
Arabic : Kurkum
Dutch : Geelwortel
Italian : Curcuma
Portuguese : Acafrao-da-India
Russian : Zholty Imbir
Japanese : Ukon
Chinese : Yu.Chin