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Piperaceae

The pepper family

Mostly tropical climbers and shrubs. Their pungency comes from piperine and its relatives.

Order Piperales · peppers and their relatives Early flowering plants 4 pages

🫚 Spices (4)

Black pepper
The king of spices, and the most traded spice in the world
🌶️ Heat Medium
Cubeb
The tailed pepper of Java: piney, bitter and nearly forgotten
🌶️ Heat Mild
Long pepper
The pepper that Rome prized above black, and that chillies all but erased
🌶️ Heat Medium
White pepper
Black pepper without its jacket: hotter, earthier and invisible in pale food
🌶️ Heat Medium

Related families

Others in Early flowering plants.

Schisandraceae · star anise family Lauraceae · laurel family Myristicaceae · nutmeg family

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