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Black pepper is a flowering vine, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. Black pepper is native to South India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions.

 


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Evergreen, woody-stemmed, perennial climber with dark green leaves to 5" (13cm) long. Minimum temperature 61F (16C).
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Black pepper (Piper nigrum), the true pepper, is economically the most important species of the pantropical pepper family (Piperaceae). It is native to Java, whence it was introduced into other tropical countries.

EnglischBlack pepper
EsperantoNigra pipro
EstnischMust pipar Farsiف"ف" سیاه Felfel Siah ...

10 (15)m, Black Peppermint is a low tree with dark grayish brown bark and grayish green to bluish green, elliptical juvenile and lanceolate adult leaves with a typical very strong peppermint fragrance. White to cream flowers.

Piper nigrum. Black Pepper. Not common.
Pistia stratiotes. Water Lettuce. Also known as shellflower. An aquatic plant often seeing growing in ponds and aquaria. Leaves are shell-shaped. Flowers are inconspicuous.

black peppermint Eucalyptus amygdalina
black pine Pinus thunbergiana
black poplar; Lombardy poplar Populus nigra
black swallow-wort; Louis's swallowwort; dog-strangling vine Cynanchum louiseae
black wattle Acacia mearnsii ...

Close relative of Piper methysticum (kava-kava), and Piper nigrum (black pepper), this herb is a member of the pepper family, grows as a bush in the South Pacific.

The dry drupes are the size of a black peppercorn and contain four seeds - this "monk's pepper" is also sometimes used to season food. Download a large version (800x600) of this image.
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The fruits as found in commerce are small nearly globular berries, about 3/10 inch in diameter, somewhat like black pepper in appearance, with a rough and brittle surface and crowned by the remains of the calyx teeth, surrounding the short style.

A food seasoning that is mainly a mixture of garlic and black pepper with other seasonings such as onion, sweet peppers, and salt added, depending on the provider. It can be used ...
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Magnoliidae - about 9,000 species,[21] characterized by trimerous flowers, pollen with one pore, and usually branching-veined leaves - for example magnolias, bay laurel, and black pepper ...

The genus name Peperomia translates to "pepper like", which makes sense since it falls in the same family that the plant black pepper is harvested from.
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They boiled the danewort root, combined with blackwort, motherwort and burdock roots, then placed rye flower, black pepper, oil and wheat bran on them, and the resulting mixture was used for cataplasms for back and lower back pain.

This pepper boasts the most dramatically deep purple-black leaves and fruit imaginable. The vigorous, bushy plants grow to 18 inches tall and almost as wide. Flowers are lilac, and dark black peppers emerge in fall.

They can also be fried in olive oil along with onion & sweet bell pepper, basil, & ground black pepper, & will keep in the refrigerator indefinitely as a relish, which tastes super delicious on vegie burgers.

accomplishes its intended goal, attracting hundreds of large scarab beetles that do the pollination. The heat, generated by rapid metabolism of stored lipids, volatilizes a pungent attractant described as having an odor of "a mixture of black pepper, ...

Some important food crops come from perennial plants such as mangos, cinnamon, cappers, black pepper, coconut and apples.

eaten raw because of the latex they contain, although they are frequently boiled and eaten as a vegetable. In the West Indies, young leaves are cooked and eaten like spinach. In India, seeds are sometimes used as an adulterant in whole black pepper.

See also: Pepper, Green, May, India, Medic