NCCWDB

Piper nigrum / Black pepper / 黑胡椒

  • Introduction
    Piper nigrum is a positive species, light-loving, slightly shade-tolerant, cold-resistant, and grows best on moist, fertile, slightly acidic sandy soils. The flowers are heterogeneous, usually monoecious, the inflorescences are opposite to the leaves, shorter than the leaves or equal to the leaves, the peduncles are nearly equal in length to the petioles, glabrous. The stems and branches are glabrous, the nodes are significantly expanded, and small roots are often born. The berries are spherical, sessile, 3-4 mm in diameter, red when ripe, and turn black when unripe when dried. Leaves thick, nearly leathery, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, rare nearly rounded, 10-15 cm long, 5-9 cm wide.
  • Common name: / Black pepper / 黑胡椒
  • Taxonomy: Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; Magnoliidae; Piperales; Piperaceae; Piper

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