Pimenta
Encyclopedia
Pimenta is a genus of the botanical
family
Myrtaceae
. Well-known species include allspice
(P. dioicia) and the West Indian bay tree (P. racemosa).
This genus includes:
Botany
Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae
The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...
. Well-known species include allspice
Allspice
Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or newspice, is a spice that is the dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica , a mid-canopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world...
(P. dioicia) and the West Indian bay tree (P. racemosa).
This genus includes:
- Pimenta adenocladaPimenta adenocladaPimenta adenoclada is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family . It is endemic to Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta cainitoidesPimenta cainitoidesPimenta cainitoides is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta dioica (allspice)
- Pimenta ferrugineaPimenta ferrugineaPimenta ferruginea is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta filipesPimenta filipesPimenta filipes is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta haitiensisPimenta haitiensisPimenta haitiensis is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to the Dominican Republic.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta jamaicensisPimenta jamaicensisPimenta jamaicensis is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta obscuraPimenta obscuraPimenta obscura is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta odiolensPimenta odiolensPimenta odiolens is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta oliganthaPimenta oliganthaPimenta oligantha is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta podocarpoidesPimenta podocarpoidesPimenta podocarpoides is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Pimenta racemosa (West Indian bay tree)
- Pimenta pseudocaryophillus
- Pimenta richardiiPimenta richardiiPimenta richardii is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....