Pimenta dioica Lindl.
| Kannada Name : | None |
| Common Name : | Allspice, Jamaican pepper |
| Family Name : | Myrtaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Pimenta dioica |
| Species Type : | Exotic |
| Phenology : | Evergreen |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | February - March |
| Fruiting Period : | April - June |
| Origin : | West indies, Central America |
Uses
Allspice is one of the most important ingredients of Caribbean cuisine. Under the name 'pimento', it is used in Jamaican jerk seasoning, though in principle the wood is used to smoke jerk in Jamaica. In the West Indies, an allspice liqueur is produced under the name "pimento dram".
Description
Evergreen tree, up to 20 m tall, with young branchlets glandular and pubescent. Leaves aromatic, oblong-elliptic, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or glabrescent, base acute or rounded, rounded to obtusely acuminate at the apex, margin entire. Inflorescence a panicle. Flowers bisexual, white, 4-merous, small, pubescent. Fruit subglobose to oblate berry, densely covered with convex glands, aromatic on drying. Seeds 2, reniform.
