Native to Southeast Asia, now widely planted in tropical areas. Now China's Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces and regions are cultivated, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, as well as Brazil and other places are the main exporters of pepper.

Pepper grows slowly in shady forests, heat-resistant, cold-resistant, drought-resistant, wind-resistant, shear-resistant, easy to transplant, waterlogging-resistant. Fertile sandy loam is the best soil for farming, good drainage and light needs. So pepper generally grows in the tropics with an annual precipitation of 2500 millimeters, with a dry and hot time interval in the middle of the growing season.

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Pepper Variety Distribution

1. Black Pepper: Black pepper is a species of flowering vine in the Piperaceae family. It originated from the Malabar coast of India. It is grown in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Hainan in China. It has a spicy fruity flavor. It was one of the first spices used by humans and is the most widely used spice today.

2, white pepper: white pepper is one of the most popular spices in chili peppers, it is a dry and almost ripe fruit. It is mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan. Its surface is yellowish-white or yellowish-white, smooth, with many light-colored linear stripes between the top and bottom. Its medicinal value is slightly higher than that of black pepper.

3, green pepper: green pepper is less spicy, used in duck dishes, cream and lactic ester products, mainly produced in Brazil, Malaysia, Ceylon, Thailand, Singapore and other places.

4, red pepper: red pepper is the fruit of the Brazilian pepper tree, originating in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay and other places, and later introduced into many places, mainly as a decorative or shade plants, because it is a kind of aggressive plants, so to this day, most of the temperate zone can be seen in the Brazilian pepper tree traces.

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