Black Pepper
ಕಾಳುಮೆಣಸುकालीमिर्चமிளகு
Piper nigrum L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- 99 cm
Piperaceae
Also called Pepper plant, Black pepper
Formerly Muldera multinervis, Muldera wightiana, Piper aromaticum, Piper colonum, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Sri LankaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 6 of 7 sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 4–4 m; Wikipedia 4–4 m; Wikipedia 4–4 m; Wikipedia 4–4 m; Wikipedia 4–4 m; Wikipedia 4–4 m; Plants for a Future 6–6 m
- Spread
- 99 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Pimienta negra
- Indonesian
- Merica, Lada
- Portuguese
- Pimenta-do-reino
- Finnish
- ryytipippuri
- Czech
- pepřovník černý
- Japanese
- コショウ
- Sinhala
- ගම්මිරිස්
- Chinese (China)
- 胡椒, 黑椒
- Russian
- Перец чёрный
- root
- Սև պղպեղ, Marica, Paminta
- Chinese
- 胡椒, 白胡椒, 胡椒（黑胡椒）
- Italian
- Pepe
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Piper nigrum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.