HORT 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Black Pepper, Myristicin, Textile Manufacturing

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Horticulture
• Course: HORT 3440
• Professor: Affolter

Document Summary

An evergreen vine native to sri lanka and india. The red bulbs have the sugar in them and are more mature than the green. If you pick the green immature fruits and let them dry, you get black pepper. If you pick the mature red ones and remove the flesh, you get white pepper. If you put the green immature fruit in brine, you get pungent tasting ones. Flaps flip open when the pollen is ready to be released. When cinnamon is harvested, the outer layer is thrown away, and the inner part is used. When they harvest cinnamon cassia (cheaper chinese cinnamon), they use all of the bark. Compassing- cutting the tree down to the root. The goal of the harvest is to end up with cinnamon quills. Nutmeg: came from a group of islands in indonesia. Tree, native to the moluccas or spice islands.