Grains of Paradise (Aframomum melegueta), also called Melegueta Pepper and Guinea Pepper, is a spice that is relative of ginger, allspice and cardamom. Grains of Paradise are spicy, warm, and a little on the bitter side. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Families Cannaceae Costaceae Heliconiaceae Lowiaceae Marantaceae Musaceae Strelitziaceae Zingiberaceae The Zingiberales are an order of monocots, including familiar plants like bananas and ginger. ... Subdivisions Subfamily Siphonochiloideae Tribe Siphonochileae Siphonochilus Subfamily Tamijioideae Tribe Tamijieae Tamijia Subfamily Alpinioideae Tribe Alpinieae Aframomum Alpinia - galangal Amomum Aulotandra Cyphostigma Elettaria - cardamom Elettariopsis Etlingera Geocharis Geostachys Hornstedtia Leptosolena Paramomum Plagiostachys Renealmia Siliquamomum (Incertae Sedis) Vanoverberghia Tribe Riedelieae Burbidgea Pleuranthodium Riedelia Siamanthus Subfamily Zingiberoideae Tribe Zingibereae Boesenbergia Camptandra Caulokaempferia (Incertae... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Binomial name Zingiber officinale Roscoe Ginger root is used extensively as a spice in many if not most cuisines of the world. ... Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, Myrtle pepper, Pimento, or Newspice, is a spice which is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant. ... Binomial name Elettaria cardamomum Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) is a pungent aromatic spice belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. ...
It is native to West Africa and it was very popular in medieval Europe. At the time pepper was expensive and the piquant, strong flavored brown seeds of Grains of Paradise were used as a substitute for pepper, since it gave a similar taste with less expense. The spice is called also with the names alligator-pepper and Guinea grains. The seeds are used not only to flavor food, but can be chewed on cold days to warm the body. Today it is used in Samuel Adams Summer Ale. West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Compact orange pepper plants in the genus Capsicum. ...
There is also a Malagueta pepper grown in Brazil which is a Capsicum. Malagueta pepper (Capsicum frutescens var. ... Species (incl. ...
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