Black Pepper

Black Pepper is the fourth plant obtained after beating the 17th day of Astronomical Moon in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a single use pepper that causes zombies that bite it stop eating plants for a while. However, it will eat snow-based plants such as Snow Pea and Winter Melon to make itself eat again. Getting chilled or frozen by Iceberg Lettuce, Hurrikale or the freezing winds in Frostbite Caves will also do the aforementioned. Additionally, zombies who have eaten Black Pepper will gain 2x damage from fire plants.
==Etymology==
Black Pepper is based-on the plant of the same name, a flowering vine in the Piperaceae family. The black peppers are produced from unripe drupes of the pepper plant.
==Almanac entry==
Sun cost: 25
AREA: Single
RECHARGE: 5 seconds
When zombies eat Black Peppers, they will avoid eating any plants except cold ones and be more susceptible to fire damage.
Special: stops zombies from eating plants, Exception to snow ones temporarily
Special: Zombies eaten by Black Pepper gain more damage from fire projectiles.
Black Pepper used to be bossed around by Snapdragon, who wanted to nibble him in order to increase his fire-breathing skills. Black Pepper let out a sigh of relief when he refused his offer to plunder gold with him to join a space mission.
==Plant Food upgrade==
Black Pepper turns reddish and a little steam comes out of his head when fed with Plant Food, and any zombie which eats it burns and will light up a fire on a tile that will torch other zombies similarly to Lava Guava for 4 seconds.
==Strategies==
Black Pepper serves as a plant saver when zombies eat it, and will let plants destroy them without getting any plant eaten. This makes this plant useful for Save Our Seeds levels. However, this can also let the zombie go through defenses without wasting time, so it is recommended to use it wisely, as there are faster zombies you have to deal with in other worlds. Zombies which do not eat are immune to Black Pepper, meaning Gargantuars, Explorer Zombies with their torch lit, Wizard Zombies and Jetpack Zombies are impossible to spice up. 
Additionally, Black Pepper has synergy with plants such as Fire Peashooter and peashooting plants behind Torchwood. 
Be sure to make quick work of zombies who have eaten Black Pepper, since his ability also means that they can walk past defensive plants such as Wall-nut.
Using it's Plant Food ability will also be able to help destroy zombies as well, especially if placed symmetrically on 5 columns with Tile Turnips placed under, as it will create a temporary fire barrier.
==Gallery==
Black Pepper HD.png|HD Black Pepper
==Trivia==
*This and Pepper-pult are the only peppers in the game not to be an insta-kill.
*Like Hypno-shroom, it can affect machines despite the fact that they don't get affected like Chili Bean.
*It is the only pepper plant in the game to be a peppercorn.
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Category:Peppers
Category:Single-use plants
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