Zingiberaceae
Black cardamom
Amomum subulatum
- Family
- Zingiberaceae
- Genus
- Amomum
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Common names
By language (37)
- Arabic
- هيل أسود
- arz
- هيل اسود
- Azerbaijani
- Bizvari hil
- Basque
- Kardamomo beltz
- bo
- ཀ་ཀོ་ལ།
- Bulgarian
- Черен кардамон
- Chinese
- 草果, 香豆蔻, 嘎哥拉, 茴香豆蔻, Dried Ammoium, 草豆蔻
- Czech
- Nepálský kardamom, Nepálský kardamon, Velký indický kardamom
- Dutch
- Zwarte kardemom
- English
- Black cardamom, Bengal cardamom, Big cardamom, Brown cardamom, Greater cardamom, Hill cardamom, Indian cardamom, Nepal cardamom
- Esperanto
- Amomo
- French
- Cardamome brune, Cardamome noire
- frr
- Suart Kardamom
- German
- Schwarzer Kardamom, Brauner Kardamom, Elaichi, Nepal-Kardamom
- Greek
- Μαύρο κάρδαμο
- Gujarati
- એલચો
- Hindi
- बड़ी इलायची, काली इलायची, नेपाली इलायची, बंगाल इलायची, भूरी इलायची, लाल इलायची
- Japanese
- アモムム・スブタトゥム, アモムム・スブラトゥム
- Javanese
- Kapulaga ireng
- Korean
- 향두구
- lah
- موٹی لیچی
- Lithuanian
- Ylalapis kardamonaitis
- Malayalam
- പേരേലം, Black cardamom
- Nepali
- अलैंची, अलैँची
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Svart kardemomme, Brun kardemomme, Nepalkardemomme, Sort kardemomme
- os
- Сау кардамон
- Persian
- هل سیاه
- Polish
- Amomek szydlasty
- Russian
- Чёрный кардамон
- Slovenian
- Črni kardamom
- Spanish
- Cardamomo negro
- Swedish
- Svart kardemumma
- Tamil
- கருப்பு ஏலக்காய்
- Thai
- Saltlicks
- Ukrainian
- Чорний кардамон
- Urdu
- Black cardamom
- Vietnamese
- Thảo quả
Synonyms
- Cardamomum subulatum (Roxb.) Kuntze
Photos
Photo: Brian Arthur, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Nativeplants garden, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.