Pepper - the common name for plants of a sort peppery, which more than 700. It is also accepted to call pepper of a plant of family of a nightshade family, the sorts Kapsikum.
Instruction
1. In trade call pepper to a number absolutely of other spices which have also no relation to a sort of pepper. These are, for example, the allspices and pseudo-pepper called ksilopiya. The real pepper can be considered only the families belonging to a sort of pepper peppery. They look as the small climbing bushes, inflorescences them remind bunches of grapes, on each cluster from 30 to 50 small fruits stone fruit in the form of a sphere find room. As spice 5-6 types growing mainly in the Southern Asia are used from them. On coloring of a product of spice divide into white, gray, brown and black peppers.
2. Kapsikuma, or red pepper, are considered as pepper too though belong to family of a nightshade family together with potatoes and tomatoes. As spices its following types are everywhere widespread: the siliculose pepper called still sometimes sharp, burning, Chile, paprika, Mexican or Spanish. This cultivated annual plant yielding fruits in the form of pods. The Cayenne pepper carries the official name Capsicum fastigiatum Bl. or Capsicum frutescens, but also call it pepper, Indian or Brazilian. Fruits its small and light orange, but it more burning, than chili pepper can also cause even severe burns on skin. The aroma of other kapsikum is very weak, and the Cayenne pepper very strongly smells in a ground look. Bird's pepper, or small pepper also belongs to a sort kapsikum. These are the pods of moderate causticity used as spice for ready dishes quite often it call table pepper. It is used as fertilizing worldwide for birds as the substances which are contained in it raise a yaytsenoskost and improve coloring of a feather.
3. Spice which can replace the real pepper and therefore quite often with it is confused, called false pepper, pseudo-pepper, a ksilopiya, a brazilnik. This plant belongs to family anonovy, from this family as substitute of pepper two of her representatives are used. The first of them is a kumba, or Mauritian pepper, this bush grows in the Western Africa. As spice its seeds which on taste are really similar to pepper in aroma and causticity are used. This spice is not exported to many countries of Europe, and it is possible to taste it only partially in Spain, but in the Western Africa and North Africa it is used often. The second spice is called Black pepper or Guinean pepper. A sort from North Africa, this tree is taken out and is cultivated on the Antilles and in South America. All these plants call in trade in allspices though have no relation to the real pepper.