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Piper nigrum (black pepper)
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| Habit | Piper nigrum (black pepper); branch with leaves, young inflorescence and fruiting spikes. | ©PROSEA Foundation |
Identity
Top of pagePreferred 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
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Angiospermae
- Class: Dicotyledonae
- Order: Piperales
- Family: Piperaceae
- Genus: Piper
- Species: Piper nigrum
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor 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); Aphis gossypii (cotton aphid); Aspergillus niger (black mould of onion); Aspidiotus destructor (coconut scale); Bactrocera caryeae; Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental fruit fly); Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (yellow disease phytoplasmas); Ceroplastes rusci (fig wax scale); Chalara elegans (black root rot); 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):
Cydia hemidoxa; Dolichothrips reuteri; Lepidosaphes piperis; Liothrips karnyi; Longitarsus nigripennis (flea beetle, pepper, pollu)Uses List
Top of pageHuman food and beverage
- Spices and culinary herbs
Materials
- Essential oils
Medicinal, pharmaceutical
- Traditional/folklore