Whole Black Peppercorns With a Heaping Teaspoon of Ground Pepper

Whole black peppercorns with a heaping teaspoon of ground pepper in a stainless steel teaspoon on a yellow mat background.... more

by Ray Sheley

Title

Whole Black Peppercorns With a Heaping Teaspoon of Ground Pepper

Artist

Ray Sheley

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Photograph - Photography

Description

Whole black peppercorns with a heaping teaspoon of ground pepper in a stainless steel teaspoon on a yellow mat background.

Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is approximately 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in diameter, dark red when fully mature, and, like all drupes, contains a single seed. Peppercorns, and the ground pepper derived from them, may be described simply as pepper, or more precisely as black pepper (cooked and dried unripe fruit), green pepper (dried unripe fruit) and white pepper (ripe fruit seeds). Black pepper is native to south India, and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions.

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April 4th, 2015