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Allspice
Pimenta dioica
Allspice is a lowland tropical tree whose dried, unripe berries taste like nutmeg, clove and cinnamon in one fruit - which is exactly where the English name comes from - and go into everything from pickles and ketchup to Benedictine and Chartreuse. Its leaves and a separate leaf oil flavour baked goods and perfumes, and the wood is fine-textured, hard and heavy. It is slow to bear, with a seedling tree taking around twenty years to flower and full production not arriving for two to three decades, though a tree can then keep cropping for about fifty years. Unusually for a spice tree it does best on limestone soil, and since it may need separate male and female trees to fruit at all, that question is worth settling before a single tree goes in the ground.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 10–12
- Soil
- Loam
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moist
Vertical layer
Canopy- Soil pH
- 6.3–8
- Plant type
- Evergreen Tree
- Mature height
- 20–40 ft
- Mature spread
- 15–25 ft
- Plant spacing
- 19.7 ft
- Root type
- Tap
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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