EPPO Global Database

Pimenta dioica(PMTDI)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-04-10

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: PMTDI
  • Preferred name: Pimenta dioica
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Merrill

Notes

Mexico, Central America, Caribbean. Introduced in Venezuela


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Eugenia pimenta de Candolle
Pimenta officinalis Lindley

Common names
Name Language
allspice English
Jamaican sweet pepper English
Jamaica pepper English
pimento English
Nelkenpfefferbaum German
Pimentbaum German
myrte piment French
piment de Jamaïque French
poivre de Jamaïque French
quatre-épices French
tout-épice French
malagueta Spanish
pimenta inglesa Spanish
pimienta dulce Spanish
pimienta gorda Spanish (HN)
pimento inglese Italian
pimentboom Dutch
pimenta-da-Jamaica Portuguese