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Piper nigrum
(black pepper)

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Piper nigrum (black pepper)

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Last modified
22 November 2019

Datasheet Type(s)
Host Plant

Preferred Scientific Name
Piper nigrum

Preferred Common Name
black pepper

Taxonomic Tree
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae

Uses List
Essential oils
Spices and culinary herbs
Traditional/folklore

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Piper nigrum (black pepper); branch with leaves, young inflorescence and fruiting spikes.

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Piper nigrum (black pepper); branch with leaves, young inflorescence and fruiting spikes.

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Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

Piper nigrum L.

Preferred Common Name

black pepper

International Common Names

English: common pepper plant; pepper
Spanish: pimentero
French: poivrier; poivrier cultive
Portuguese: pimenteiro

Local Common Names

Cambodia: mréch
Germany: Gemeiner Pfefferstrauch
Indonesia: lada; merica
Italy: pianta del pepe
Laos: phik nooyz
Myanmar: ngayok-kaung
Netherlands: peper
Philippines: malisa
Sweden: pepparbuske
Thailand: phrik thai
Vietnam: tiêu

EPPO code

PIPNI (Piper nigrum)

Taxonomic Tree

Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Piperales
Family: Piperaceae
Genus: Piper
Species: Piper nigrum

List of Pests

Major host of:

Athelia rolfsii (sclerotium rot); Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly); Choanephora cucurbitarum (Choanephora fruit rot); Criconemella (ring nematode); Dasynus piperis (large pepper berry bug); Diconocoris hewetti (pepper lace bug); Diconocoris nepalensis (pepper lace bug); Enarmonia hemidoxa (shoot borer of pepper); Ferrisia virgata (striped mealybug); Glomerella cingulata (anthracnose); Helicotylenchus dihystera (common spiral nematode); Helicotylenchus variocaudatus; Helopeltis theivora (tea mosquito bug); Hoplolaimus seinhorsti (lance nematode); Lophobaris piperis (pepper bark weevil); Macrophomina phaseolina (charcoal rot of bean/tobacco); Pinnaspis aspidistrae (scale insect); Pratylenchus coffeae (banana root nematode); Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (bacterial canker or blast (stone and pome fruits)); Radopholus similis (burrowing nematode); Spodoptera litura (taro caterpillar); Stegobium paniceum (drugstore beetle); Thosea lutea; Thrips tabaci (onion thrips); Trophotylenchulus piperis; Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. betlicola; Xiphinema (dagger nematode)

Minor host of:

Aleurodicus cocois (coconut whitefly); Aleurodicus destructor (coconut whitefly); Aleurodicus pulvinatus (coconut whitefly); Amblypelta lutescens (banana spotting bug); Aphis gossypii (cotton aphid); Aspergillus niger (black mould of onion); Aspidiotus destructor (coconut scale); Bactrocera caryeae; Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (yellow disease phytoplasmas); Ceroplastes rusci (fig wax scale); Chenopodium album (fat hen); Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle); Cochliobolus lunatus (head mould of grasses, rice and sorghum); Conogethes punctiferalis (castor capsule borer); Cricula trifenestrata (tea flush worm); Diaporthe phaseolorum var. meridionalis (soyabean stem canker); Erythricium salmonicolor (pink disease); Haematonectria haematococca (dry rot of potato); Helopeltis antonii (tea bug); Icerya aegyptiaca (breadfruit mealybug); Marasmiellus scandens (white thread blight); Marasmius crinis-equi (horse hair blight); Meloidogyne incognita (root-knot nematode); Phytophthora capsici (stem and fruit rot of Capsicum); Phytophthora palmivora (coconut budrot); Phytophthora tropicalis; Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi (Jack Beardsley mealybug); Rigidoporus microporus (white root disease of rubber); Rosellinia necatrix (dematophora root rot); Rotylenchulus reniformis (reniform nematode); Xiphinema ifacolum (dagger nematode)

Host of (source - data mining):

Aphelenchoides bicaudatus; Aphelenchus avenae (fungivorous nematode); Cydia hemidoxa; Ditylenchus myceliophagus; Dolichothrips reuteri; Dysmicoccus brevipes (pineapple mealybug); Icerya seychellarum (Seychelles scale); Lepidosaphes piperis; Liothrips karnyi; Longidorus elongatus (needle nematode); Longitarsus nigripennis (flea beetle, pepper, pollu); Meloidogyne enterolobii (Pacara earpod tree root-knot nematode); Meloidogyne javanica (sugarcane eelworm); Phthorimaea absoluta (tomato leafminer); Phytophthora nicotianae (black shank); Planococcus lilacinus (cacao mealybug); Planococcus minor (passionvine mealybug); Pratylenchus brachyurus (root-lesion nematode); Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 (brown rot of potato); Seinura; Tylenchulus semipenetrans (citrus root nematode); Xiphinema americanum (dagger nematode); Xiphinema insigne

Uses List

Human food and beverage

Spices and culinary herbs

Materials

Essential oils

Medicinal, pharmaceutical

Traditional/folklore

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