TROPICAL PLANT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Piper nigrum
PepperFamily: Piperaceae
Origin: Malabar, a region in the Western Coast of South India
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Pepper is cultivated since millennia. The wild form has not yet been unambigously identified, but there are closely related pepper species in South India and Burma. While black and white pepper were already known in antiquity, but green pepper (and even more, red pepper) is a recent invention. Black pepper, grown in Southern India since more than two thousand years, has always been much valued all over the world. Pungent and aromatic. The pungency is strongest in white pepper and weakest in green pepper, while black and green pepper are more aromatic than the white one.
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Similar plants:
- Piper aduncum, Piper angustifolium, Piper elongatum (Spiked Pepper, Higuillo de Hoja, Matico)
- Piper auritum (Root Beer Plant, Mexican Pepperleaf, Hoja Santa , Veracruz Pepper, False Kava-Kava, Sacred Pepper)
- Piper betle (Betel leaf)
- Piper blattarum (Higuillo)
- Piper longum (Bengal Pepper, Indian Long Pepper, Pippali, Piplamul)
- Piper magnificum (Lacquered Peppertree)
- Piper methysticum (Kava, Kava-Kava)
- Piper ornatum, Piper crocatum (Celebes pepper)
- Piper peltatum, Lepianthes peltata, Pothomorphe peltata (Pakina, Monkey's Hand, Santa Maria Plant, Cachimuela, Cordoncillo, Pariparoba, Pariparova, Jaguarandi, Capeba, Caena)
- Piper retrofractum, Chavica officinarum, Piper chaba, Piper officinarum (Long Pepper, Balinese Pepper)
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Black pepper. Grow your own spice! Pepper is cultivated since millennia. While black and white pepper were already known in antiquity, but green pepper (and even more, red pepper) is a recent invention. Black pepper, grown in Southern India since more than two thousand years, has always been much valued all over the world. Pungent and aromatic. The pungency is strongest in white pepper and weakest in green pepper, while black and green pepper are more aromatic than the white one. Moderate growing vine that can be grown on a trellis. Prefers shade to semi-shade.
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Grown in
6"/1 gal pot
In stock
$49.95