White cardamom has the efficacy of qi and appetizing, alias: multi-bone, shell cardamom, cardamom, cardamom kernel, cardamom, cardamom, for the ginger perennial herb cardamom's fruits. October-December the fruit is yellowish-green, not yet cracked to take, remove the residue of the fruit stalk sun-drying for medicinal purposes.

Trait identification: capsule is long ellipsoid, 1.2-1.6cm long, smooth surface, yellowish brown, after peeling three chambers, each chamber has 4-8 seeds, endocarp and aril tightly wrapped in the seed mass, not easy to separate;

Seeds are irregular polyhedral, about 6mm in diameter, the back of the elevated, and there is a shallow groove, the surface of the seed talk about the brown color, with a longitudinal stripe. Aril white. Gas slightly, taste pungent, bitter. Microscopic identification: transverse section of pericarp: exocarp is composed of 1 column of square cells.

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Points for Cultivation

Choose a soil that is close to water, warm, moist, cool, with 70%~80% shade, fertile, breathable and well-drained. Good sandy loam soil. Deeply turn over, fine, rake flat, according to the terrain to make 1 ~ 1.3 meters wide, 10 cm high border.

Select fully ripe, large and full of fresh fruit, remove the husk, put on rough cement or dung skips mixed with sand and rubbed pulp, then rinsed with water, dry at room temperature, with wet sand and seed mixing germination.

Sufficient bottom fertilizer, timely fertilizer, soil cultivation. Fertilizer in spring to promote shoots and buds; winter fertilizer can improve the rate of flowering and fruiting in the second year. Micro-fertilizer to promote the sprouting of new seedlings,,improve the rate of fruiting, shorten the flowering period, to promote the fruit group closely, increase the volatile oil content?

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