Ceylon Classification ( Phone number appears when clicking the contact button ) Black pepper] or black pepper or ibzar] (Scientific name: Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine plant in the pepper family, grown for its fruit, and seed-covered, which is usually dried and used as a food flavoring and as a spice. The regions of southern India are considered the natural source of black pepper, especially the state of Karnataka. It is usually dried and used as a spice and spice fruit, known as pepper when dried, approximately 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) in diameter, dark red when fully ripe, and like all legumes, it contains one seed. Peppercorns, and the ground pepper extracted from them, can be described simply as pepper, or more precisely, black pepper (cooked and dried unripe fruits), green pepper (dried unripe fruits), and white pepper (seeds of ripe fruits). Black pepper is native to southern India, and is widely cultivated there and elsewhere in the tropics. Vietnam is currently the largest producer and exporter of pepper in the world, producing 34% of the world's Piper nigrum crops as of 2008. Dried pepper powder has been used since ancient times both for its flavor and as a result of traditional medicine. Black pepper is the most traded spice in the world. It is one of the most common spices added to European cuisine and its followers. The spice content in black pepper is attributed to the chemical piperine, and should not be confused with capsaicin, which gives chili peppers their hot flavor. It is found everywhere in the modern world as a spice, often paired with salt. The plant