Black Pepper
Piper nigrum
Plant Family
Piperaceae
Pictured: Black Pepper
Pepper family
Pungent tropical vines and shrubs built on amide alkaloids — the source of black pepper's piperine and kava's kavalactones.
2 Herbs // 6 Notable Members
Overview
The Pepper Family
Pungent tropical vines and shrubs built on amide alkaloids — the source of black pepper’s piperine and kava’s kavalactones.
Materia Medica
Herbs in This Family
The 2 monographs in the database whose Piperaceae membership is recorded on the herb itself — so this list keeps itself current as new herbs land.
Kava
Piper methysticum
Beyond the Database
Also in This Family
Notable members without a monograph yet.
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