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Samples of "Piper clusii" imported into Belgium from the Congo in 1895.Piper guineense is a West African species of Piper; the spice derived from its dried fruit is known as Ashanti pepper, Benin pepper, Edo pepper, false cubeb, Guinea cubeb, and called locally kale, kukauabe, masoro, etiñkeni, sasema, soro wisa, eyendo, eshasha by the Urhobo people, Iyere, or ata-iyere by the Yoruba and ...
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter (fresh and fully mature), dark red, and contains a stone which encloses a single pepper seed.
The fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and carefully dried. Commercial cubeb consists of the dried berries, similar in appearance to black pepper, but with stalks attached – the "tails" in "tailed pepper". The dried pericarp is wrinkled, and its color ranges from grayish brown to
At one time, the powder was ground on stone slabs, and stored in clay pots. [2] The cumin is a medicinal ingredient which aids digestion. The mint has a cooling effect. Black salt or rock salt acts as a digestive. Jaljeera is popular in northern India because it is thought to have cooling properties, against the temperature of the region.
Grains of Selim seed pods. Grains of Selim are the seeds of a shrubby tree, Xylopia aethiopica, found in Africa.The seeds have a musky flavor and are used as a spice in a manner similar to black pepper, and as a flavouring agent that defines café Touba, the dominant style of coffee in Senegal.
Piper auritum is an aromatic culinary herb in the pepper family Piperaceae, which grows in tropical Central America. Common names include hoja santa ( Spanish for 'sacred leaf'), [ 2 ] yerba santa , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] hierba santa , [ 3 ] Mexican pepperleaf , [ 4 ] acuyo , [ 4 ] tlanepa , [ 4 ] anisillo , [ 4 ] root beer plant , [ 2 ] Vera Cruz pepper ...
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In Cambodia, it is known as ដីប្លី dei-phlei and in Thailand as ดีปลี deebplee.In the Malay Archipelago, the fruit was once known as cabai; however, its culinary popularity was superseded by the chilli, brought over from the New World by European traders, resulting in a semantic shift in which the new crop became cabai, and the old became cabai jawa.