Santa Yohimbe Yucca Product Search Featured Culinary Spice Pepper Piper nigrum Indigenous to the Malabar Coast of India, clusters of redish fruits are harvested from a climbing vines then boiled in water causing the peppercorns to turn dark brown or black.
Pepper is one of the most widely used spices and is used to flavor foods.
Essential oil distilled from the fruits have a aromatic flavor and aroma but not the pungency. The aromatherapy benefits of the oil are warming and invigorating. I've not found this in the wild in Ohio. This specimen is cultivated. The fragrant juniper berries come from the shrub found growing throuhout the Northern Hemisphere.