Tasmannia stipitata, Dorrigo Pepper or Northern Pepperbush is a rainforest shrub of temperate forests of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Leaves are fragrant, narrow-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, 8-13 cm long. Dark bluish to mauve berries follow the flowers on female shrubs. The species is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families Canellaceae Winteraceae The Canellales are an order of basal dicot flowering plants, also referred to as the Winterales. ... Genera Belliolum Bubbia Drimys Exospermum Pseudowintera Takhtajania Tasmannia Tetrathalamus Zygogynum The Winteraceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the Antarctic flora. ... Species (not a complete list) Tasmannia is a genus of woody, evergreen flowering plants of the family Winteraceae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ... In geography, temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. ... Emblems: Floral - Waratah (Telopea speciosissima); Bird - Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas); Animal - Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus); Fish - Blue Groper (Achoerodus viridis) Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Const. ... In biology, Dioecious is an adjective which indicates the exisistence of separate sexes in a species of organisms. ...

Culinary Use

The culinary qualities of T. stipitata were discovered in the mid-1980s by horticulturist, Peter Hardwick, who gave it the name 'Dorrigo pepper'. It was subsequently used as a gourmet spice by Jean-Paul Bruneteau in Rowntress Restaurant, Sydney. Jean-Paul Bruneteau is a French-Australian chef and author who is credited with playing a pioneering role in the development of an authentic Australian cuisine based on indigenous ingredients. ...

Dorrigo pepper has a woody peppery note in the leaves and fruit/seed. The hot peppery flavor is derived from polygodial, an essential oil component. An essential oil is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds extracted from plants. ...

References

• Bruneteau, Jean-Paul, Tukka - Real Australian Food, ISBN 0207189668
• Harden, G.J., Flora of New South Wales, Volume 1, ISBN 086840164