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Black Pepper Vine
Piper nigrum
Black Pepper Vine is a woody evergreen climber that needs a living support tree - ideally at least 4 meters tall - to grow into a genuine two-story planting rather than a trellis crop. It comes from the monsoon forests of southern India and produces the peppercorn: dried and ground whole for black pepper, stripped of its skin for white pepper, or pickled green as a relish. It wants heavy year-round rainfall and frost-free warmth, and takes three to four years to first bear, seven years to reach full production, and up to six tonnes of green peppercorns per hectare once it does.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 12
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moist
Vertical layer
Vine- Soil pH
- 5–7.5
- Plant type
- Vine
- Mature height
- 10–15 ft
- Mature spread
- 10–15 ft
- Plant spacing
- 8–12 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-deep
- Spread pattern
- None
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