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Pimenta dioica
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Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who valued it as a spice that combined the flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. Contrary to common misconception, it is not a mixture of spices.
- Family
- Myrtaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pimenta dioica
- Slug
- pimenta-dioica
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Pimenta
- Species
- dioica
- Wikidata QID
- Q158468
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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