Tall herbaceous plants can reach 2 to 3 meters. Having rounded pseudo stem and dark green. Growing up in the area at an altitude of 200 to 1,000 m above sea level. Single leaf lies turns, sits, lanceolate shape with a size of about 7.5 to 50 cm x 3 -10 cm, base narrowed, tapered tip along 3 cm, glossy green leaf color with many white spots initially, but eventually blood red.
Flowers grow from the rhizomes and separate from the stem with erect stems to 10 cm. Interest scales are tightly closed. Crown flower form of the tube, oblong shape, with white or yellowish color. The fruit is contained in small and short, rounded sometimes hairy, yellow-colored gray.
Cardamom grown primarily for their fruit. Having traded as dried herbs or spices. Essential oils are extracted from the seeds is used in perfume industry and fragrance ingredients. All parts of this plant cardamom distinctive aromatic smell, taste bitter and warm. This nutritious plant expectorant and carminative, used to treat coughs, stomach cramps, rheumatism and fever.
Dried cardamom seed contains 2-4% essential oils, which mainly consist of 1.8-cineol (up to 70%), β-pinen (16%), α-pinen (4%), α-terpineol (5%) and humulen (3%). Fresh rhizome and roots contain about 0.1% essential oil, which contains a 1.8-cineol.
To reproduce this plant can be done with pieces of rhizome are quite old and have buds.