Blue and white pepper is a shrub; branches gray brown, with short skin thorn. Leaflets elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, margin serrulate, Chifeng gland, surface green, have fine hairs, abaxially pale green, sparsely point source.
According to Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "pepper the teeth, hair, eyesight, long service, good color, anti-aging, growth, health of god."
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Mexico pepper (Capsicum annuum) is a kind of fine to the size of the pepper, is famous for its spicy and stimulating. In 1999 the United States has 5500 acres of land in this kind of pepper, but mostly in the southern state of New Mexico and the western state of Texas.
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Large, cumin are common spices, is a fish stew, stewed food production will use the product. Because they can remove the meat smell, to make Tim, so called "fennel". Anise is aniseed, named "star anise". Fennel seed is a condiment, but also its stems and leaves with aroma, is often used to make steamed buns, dumplings and other foods fillings.
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Pepper (scientific name: Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim.) is Rutaceae Zanthoxylum, small deciduous trees, up to 7 m tall; stem spines, branches with short spines, current branches pubescent. Ye Zhouchang has very narrow leaf wing; leaflets opposite, oblong ovate, lanceolate, thin, leaf margin with fine teeth, teeth with oil. Leaf blade puberulent, leaf Beigan with reddish brown markings. Inflorescence was born in the top of the branches, tepals yellowish green, the shape and size of roughly the same style or oblique bending. Fruit purplish red, scattered slightly raised oil points, flowering period 4-5 months, fruit period 8-9 months or October.
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Black pepper (scientific name: Piper nigrum), called Piper nigrum, is a flowering vine of the Piperaceae aka Kurokawa, originating in India, Malabar Coast (Malabar Coast). The spicy fruit, is one of the earliest people use spices, now is probably the most widely used spices.
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Cinnamon, scientific name: chaigui [1], also known as: Cinnamon, commonly known as Lauraceae, Cinnamomum tenjikukatsura, Cinnamomum burmannii, cinnamon or Chuangui tenuifolia bark etc.. This product is food spices or cooking spices. The original plant of commodity cinnamon is more complex, there are about more than 10 species are Cinnamomum lauraceae. Around there are 8 kinds of commonly used, including cinnamon, Stenotaphrum Guangxi, Southern China Guangxi and other burmannii area for many types of medication. Various varieties were used as spices in the western ancient. Use it to stew seasoning in Chinese cuisine, is one of the ingredients of five spice powder. Is one of the earliest human use of spices.
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The Illicium verum Hook.f. is a kind of plant of Illiciaceae and Genus of the genus.
Tree crown tower, oval or conical; bark dark gray dense branches. Irregular leaves alternate, obovate elliptic, oblanceolate or elliptic; flowering is rough fruit 3-5 months, 9-10 months of fruit ripening, spring flowering rough fruit 8-10 months, 3-4 months in fruit ripening; pollen red to dark red, solitary axillary or subterminal; peduncle 20-56 mm long, full flat aggregate fruit for more than 8, follicles, octagonal.
The fruit of the famous spices, also for medicinal. Peel, seeds, leaves containing aromatic oil is an important raw material for the manufacture of cosmetics, sweet wine, beer and food industry.
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