Did you know that Allspice (Pimenta dioica) was so named because the flavour of the dried berry resembles a combination of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg?
Allspice - Pimenta dioica
Allspice, (Pimenta dioica), tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and its berries, the source of a highly aromatic spice. The plant is native to the West Indies and Central America. Allspice was so named because the flavour of the dried berry resembles a combination of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta
dioica.
Pimenta dioica, is a small evergreen midcanopy tree that typically grows 7 - 10 metres tall but occasionally reaches 20 metres. The bole can be up to 30cm in diameter. Allspice can be a small, scrubby tree, quite similar to the bay laurel in size and form. It can also be a tall canopy tree, sometimes grown to provide shade for coffee trees planted underneath
it.
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