Where and how is black pepper grown?!


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Where and how is black pepper grown?


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Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The same fruit is also used to produce white pepper and green pepper.[1] Black pepper is native to South India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five millimetres in diameter, dark red when fully mature, containing a single seed.

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where: India
How: peppercorns, but other than that, not sure

http://www.foodforthoughtonline.net/blac...

On pepper trees. It comes out as little black fruit. The fruit is dried and crushed to give you black pepper

Black pepper comes from pepper plants, which are native to India and widely cultivated in other tropical regions. The dried fruit of these plants is called peppercorn.

Is it any relation to red and green peppers?

Some xperts say Southwestern Asia while others say since Roman times in the cities of Alexandria and Geona

Try these two links.

http://www.culinarycafe.com/spices_herbs...

http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~presslar/ec...




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