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Black Pepper......
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering perennial woody vine in the Piperaceae, growing up to 4 metres in height on supporting trees or poles. Cultivated for its fruits which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. Black and white pepper is one of the important spice in Sarawak. Black and white pepper is produced from the semi-ripen berries of the pepper plant. White pepper consists of the seed only, with the fruit skins is removed by soaking fully ripe berries in water for about a week. 
The leaves are alternate, entire, five to ten centimetres long and three to six centimetres broad. The flowers are small, produced on pendulous spikes 4 - 8 cm long at the leaf nodes, the spikes lengthening to 7 - 15 cm as the fruit matures.
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering perennial woody vine in the Piperaceae, growing up to 4 metres in height on supporting trees or poles. Cultivated for its fruits which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. Black and white pepper is one of the important spice in Sarawak. Black and white pepper is produced from the semi-ripen berries of the pepper plant. White pepper consists of the seed only, with the fruit skins is removed by soaking fully ripe berries in water for about a week. 
The leaves are alternate, entire, five to ten centimetres long and three to six centimetres broad. The flowers are small, produced on pendulous spikes 4 - 8 cm long at the leaf nodes, the spikes lengthening to 7 - 15 cm as the fruit matures.
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