Home/Life Moonlite Foods Inc September 13, 2018 Indian green cardamom Pepper is the ‘King of Spices‘ and Cardamom is the ‘Queen’ of Spice . One of the most exotic and highly prized spices, Indian green cardamom or small cardamom has a history as old as human civilization. The dried fruit of a herbaceous perennial, green cardamom is grown mainly in Kerala, Tamilnadu and Karnataka, on the shady slopes of the western Ghats. Warm humid climate, loamy soil rich in organic matter, distributed rainfall and special cultivation and processing methods all combine to make Indian green cardamom truly unique in aroma, flavour, size and colour tempting parrot-green.