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Pimenta dioica, commonly known as allspice, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It belongs to the genus Pimenta and is classified within the order Myrtales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta. The scientific name is Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr. This useful plant serves as a source of the spice allspice.
The taxon range for Pimenta dioica is listed as Cuba. It has been described in The Nuttall Encyclopædia. According to the IUCN Red List, the species was assessed as Least Concern in 2019. Records from iDigBio indicate occurrences in Mexico, with institutions including ECOSUR, ENCB-IPN, IIB-UV, UACH, and INECOL holding related data.
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Species
Least Concernallspice
Pimenta dioica
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMyrtales
- FamilyMyrtaceae
Pimenta dioica Le piment de la Jamaïque ou poivre de la Jamaïque (Pimenta dioica) est un arbre de la famille des Myrtaceae. C'est une espèce des régions tropicales d'Amérique, dont les fruits sont à l'origine d'une épice appelée tout-épice ou quatre-épices. Le nom quatre-épices est ambigu car souvent aussi utilisé pour désigner un mélange de 4 épices qui a un goût identique au tout-épice.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,261
- With media
- 332
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, ENCB-IPN, IIB-UV, UACH, INECOL, CICY
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- food plant
- Parent taxon
- Pimenta
- Image
- Piment Flower.jpg
- Has use
- spice
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- Pimenta dioica
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- species
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- Pimenta dioica
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- Pimenta dioica
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- different from
- allspice
- short name
- P. dioica
- taxon range
- Cuba
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/d51a552b-0d2c-4788-a5c9-824b552abbf1
- taxon common name
- allspice
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Encyclopedic overview
Piment flower in Uaxactún, north of Tikal National Park, Guatemala Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who valued it as a spice that combined the flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. Contrary to common misconception, it is not a mixture of spices.
Several unrelated fragrant shrubs are called "Carolina allspice" (Calycanthus floridus), "Japanese allspice" (Chimonanthus praecox), or "wild allspice" (Lindera benzoin).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pimenta dioica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.