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Bookmark or Share- Black pepper - WikipediaBlack 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.
- What Are Peppercorns? - AllrecipesPeppercorns are berries that grow on Piper nigrum, a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae. The fruit is most often dried and used as a seasoning. The peppercorn is used to flavor foods in both its whole and its ground state.
- What Are Peppercorns and How Should You Use Them?Learn what peppercorns are, including the well-known types used by home cooks. Also how to use and store peppercorns and how long they last.
- Types, Colors, Uses, Origins, and More - The Spicy TrioPeppercorns are berries, known as drupes, meaning a single seeded fruit. The most common peppercorn, which is black in color, is picked fresh from a vine while it is still green and then sun-dried, giving it its black coloration that you’re used to seeing when you purchase pepper in the stores.
- 3 Types of Peppercorns You Should Always Have in StockDifferent types of peppercorns—green, black, and white—all start the same way, as a drupe, growing in clusters on a flowering vine of the plant Piper nigrum. That fruit, depending on how ripe...
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