Black pepper
Piper nigrum
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Piper nigrum
- Group
- Magnoliids
- Order
- Piperales
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Continent
- Asia
- Habitat
- Rainforest
- Form
- Climber
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Flower colour
- Inconspicuous
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- Spice
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Black, green and white peppercorns all come from the same plant, depending on when they are picked and how they are processed.
- Its sharp bite comes from piperine, a compound found in the berries.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q43084 · All plants · All entries