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Description
- The pepper plant is a perennial woody vine growing up to 4 metres (13 ft) in height on supporting trees, poles, or trellises.
- It is a spreading vine, rooting readily where trailing stems touch the ground.
- The leaves are alternate, entire, 5 to 10cm long and 3 to 6 cm across.
- The flowers are small, produced on pendulous spikes 4 to 8cm long at the leaf nodes, the spikes lengthening up to 7 to 15cm as the fruit matures.
- The fruit of the black pepper is called a drupe and when dried it is a peppercorn.
- Black pepper is grown in soil that is neither too dry nor susceptible to flooding, moist, well-drained and rich in organic matter (the vines do not do too well over an altitude of 3000 ft above sea level).
- The plants are propagated by cuttings about 40 to 50 centimetres long, tied up to neighbouring trees or climbing frames at distances of about two metres apart; trees with rough bark are favoured over those with smooth bark, as the pepper plants climb rough bark more readily.
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Black Pepper