black pepper

species of plant

Class type of: useful plant Q43084

Facts

18 properties

Instance of: taxon, crop^[3]
Subclass of: useful plant
Part of: Turkish cuisine^[7]
Has use: medicinal plant, food, spice, brewing^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]
Short name: P. nigrum^[21]
Described by source: Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 20(1), Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9^[12]^[13]^[14]
Different from: peppercorn^[29]
Hardiness of plant: 12
Has fruit type: drupe^[30]
Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology^[32]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[31]
Parent taxon: Piper^[5]
Taxon author citation: L.^[33]
Taxon common name: black pepper, 胡椒, 胡椒, 白胡椒, 胡椒（黑胡椒）, pimienta, črni poper, Lada^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]
Taxon name: Piper nigrum^[6]
Taxon range: Fujian, Tibet Autonomous Region, Guangdong, São Luís, Myanmar, Gabon
Taxon rank: species^[4]
This taxon is source of: peppercorn, green pepper, white pepper, black pepper, smell of black pepper, pepper smell^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]

🏷️ Also known as

en black pepper en peppercorn en Piper nigrum ar فلفل عطر ar فلفل عجمي ar فلفل أكحل ar فلفل أسود ar فلفل اسود ar الفلفل الأسود cs pepř černý cs pepřovník černý da Peber da Sort Peber da Piper nigrum de Piper nigrum de Pfeffer el πέπερι το μέλαν en-gb black pepper plant fa فلفل سیاه fi viherpippuri

🔖 Identifiers · 65

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85102395
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Piper nigrum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-107.jpg ↗
African Plant Database ID: 114949
BBC Things ID: 98b4142e-2489-471e-85fa-14db4d26442e
BOLD Systems taxon ID: 486581
Biota of New Zealand ID: 88acc237-aa45-4dfa-9773-2b1c67de4082
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID: pfefferstrauch
CalPhotos taxon ID: Piper+nigrum
Catalogue of Life ID: 4J4Z3
EBiodiversity ID: 229383
EPPO Code: PIPNI
Ecocrop ID: 1714

Show all 65 identifiers +53

Encyclopedia of Life ID: 596620
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: plant/black-pepper-plant
External data available at URL: www.gbif.org, www.gbif.org
Flora of China ID: 200005581
Flora of North America taxon ID: 200005581
Flowers of India ID: Black Pepper
Freebase ID: /m/0139zp
GBIF taxon ID: 3086357
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov
Gardens Navigator ID: 8845
Golden ID: Black_pepper-8DAN4
INRAN Italian Food ID: 006820
INaturalist taxon ID: 83583
IPNI plant ID: 682369-1
IRMNG ID: 11097708
ITIS TSN: 18310
India Biodiversity Portal species ID: 230722
Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID: ba0f1ced98218e0dfa2295cff395acdd
KBpedia ID: Pepper-TheSpice
Klexikon article ID: Pfeffer
MeSH descriptor ID: D029222
MeSH tree code: B01.875.800.575.912.250.812.666.500
Museum-digital tag ID: 11731
MyBIS species ID: 25927
NALT ID: 58401
NCBI taxonomy ID: 13216
NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID: flora/5/2/5262
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007550914105171
New Zealand Organisms Register ID: f8bd5166-c528-4e28-8f9b-c00c5e3cbce2
Observation.org taxon ID: 350920
Open Tree of Life ID: 472526
PACTOLS thesaurus ID: crtXiS7pEzMh1
PalDat plant ID: Piper_nigrum
Plant Finder ID (Missouri Botanical Garden): 285067
Plant List ID (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew): kew-2569664
Plantarium ID: 69047
Plants of the World Online ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:682369-1
Quora topic ID: Black-Pepper-2
Reddit topic ID: black_pepper
Reflora ID: FB20316
SERNEC taxon ID: 95618
TAXREF ID: 447453
Topic's main category: Category:Piper nigrum
Tropicos ID: 25000013
UBio ID: 447505
UMLS CUI: C0453397
UNII: 49L10LI8DN
USDA PLANTS ID: PINI3
Wellcome Collection concept ID: xyv9w75z
WikiKids ID: Peper
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 13170289-n, 07831564-n
World Flora Online ID: wfo-0000486494
Yale LUX ID: concept/675c267d-4255-4ba3-a5ec-edf1cd425038

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🔗 Connections

← Found in taxon 51

melatonin, acetylcholine, palmitic acid, choline, stearic acid, (±)-limonene, piperidine, eugenol +43 more

← Made from material 19

Pljeskavica, krupuk, bakso, Mostaccino, manis, Pan-bagnat, coto makassar, kotlet schabowy +11 more

Taxon range 6

Myanmar, Gabon, Guangdong, Fujian, Tibet Autonomous Region, São Luís

← Has host 6

Attacus atlas, Cricula trifenestrata, Bombycomorpha bifascia, Ectropis bhurmitra, Parasa lepida, Tomato bushy stunt virus

Belongs to 4

Caesar salad, Mititei, salsa criolla, prairie oyster

Has use 4

food, spice, medicinal plant, brewing

Instance of 2

taxon, crop

This taxon is source of 2

peppercorn, white pepper

← Natural product of taxon 2

peppercorn, white pepper

Different from 1

peppercorn

Has fruit type 1

drupe

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

Parent taxon 1

Piper

Part of 1

Turkish cuisine

Subclass of 1

useful plant

Subtypes 1

Malabar pepper

Taxon rank 1

species

← Different from 1

peppercorn

← Taxonomic type 1

Piper

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Summary

black pepper is a taxon^[1]. It is a type of useful plant^[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ black pepper — instance of (P31): crop. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ black pepper — taxon rank (P105): species. Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 1. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ black pepper — parent taxon (P171): Piper. Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 1. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ black pepper — taxon name (P225): Piper nigrum. Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 1. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ black pepper — subclass of (P279): useful plant. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ black pepper — part of (P361): Turkish cuisine. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ black pepper — has use (P366): medicinal plant. A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. Retrieved 2025-10-29. gbif.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ black pepper — has use (P366): food. A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ black pepper — has use (P366): spice. A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ black pepper — has use (P366): brewing. A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ black pepper — described by source (P1343): Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 20(1). wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ black pepper — described by source (P1343): Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ black pepper — described by source (P1343): Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ black pepper — this taxon is source of (P1672): peppercorn. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ black pepper — this taxon is source of (P1672): green pepper. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ black pepper — this taxon is source of (P1672): white pepper. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ black pepper — this taxon is source of (P1672): black pepper. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ black pepper — this taxon is source of (P1672): smell of black pepper. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ black pepper — this taxon is source of (P1672): pepper smell. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ black pepper — short name (P1813): P. nigrum. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): black pepper. United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved 2016-06-07. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): 胡椒. List of plant species in China (2022 Edition). wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): 白胡椒. A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): 胡椒（黑胡椒）. A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): pimienta. sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): črni poper. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ black pepper — taxon common name (P1843): Lada. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ black pepper — different from (P1889): peppercorn. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ black pepper — has fruit type (P4000): drupe. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ black pepper — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ black pepper — maintained by WikiProject (P6104): WikiProject Invasion Biology. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ black pepper — taxon author citation (P6507): L.. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ black pepper is an instance of taxon (Q16521) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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