Cardamom in Kerala

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Cardamom has a strong, unique taste, with an intensely aromatic, resinous fragrance. In Telugu, it is called Elaichi or Yaalukalu. In Malay, it is called "Buah Pelaga". Cardamoms are used as flavorings in both food and drink, as cooking spices and as a medicine. For a tooth ache in India, it is not unusual to be told to chew an elaichi pod! Hear the bird calls in the Wyanaad forest around! see the flower and unripe pods of elaichi on the plants in this southern rainforest zone... This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digit