Black pepper - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Black_pepperBlack pepper ( Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, known as a 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 ...
Black pepper - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pepperBlack pepper is native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has been known to Indian cooking since at least 2000 BCE. J. Innes Miller notes that while pepper was grown in southern Thailand and in Malaysia, its most important source was India, particularly the Malabar Coast, in what is now the state of Kerala. The lost ancient port city of Muzirisin Kerala, famous for exporting black pepper and various other spices, gets mentioned in a number of classical historical sources for i…