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WEST AFRICAN PEPPER MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Benefits of West African pepper
Common English name:West African Pepper, Ashanti Pepper, Pepper Benin, False Cubeb, Guinea Cubeb, Uziza Pepper, Guinea pepper, Dooje.
– Spanish: pimienta de Guinea, pimienta Ashanti, Pimienta de Benín, kale, masoro, clusii.
– Catalan: pebre de Guinea
– French: Le Poivre des Ashantis
Scientific name: Piper guineense Schumach.
Taxonomic Synonyms: Piper clusii WIQ.
Family: Piperaceae
Habitat: native to West Africa.
Botanical description of Guinea pepper
Guinea pepper (Piper guineense) is a gnarled vine native to West Africa, which is used as a substitute for black pepper (Piper nigrum).
It is a perennial plant that is characterized by heart-shaped leaves and oval, petiolate, alternate, 12 cm long.
The inflorescence is a pedicelled flower spike between 3 and 6 cm long. Peduncle 5 millimeters long. Flowers are greenish yellow and arranged in a spiral along the spine.
The fruit of Guinea pepper fruit is a drupe mesocarp or fleshy, oval, 5 mm in diameter.
Properties of West African pepper
This species is a less spicy than Piper nigrum… It has been attributed with suitable properties for the following anomalies:
More information about black pepper and other types of peppers
| Botanical classification | |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | Spermatophyta Seed plants |
| Division | Magnoliophyta Flower plants |
| Class | Magnoliopsida Dicotyledons |
| Order | Piperales |
| Family | Piperaceae |
| Gender | Piper |
| Species | Piper guineense |
More information about black pepper and other types of peppers
