Gary K. Smith / Tomato {Solanum lycopersicum} and Pepper seedlings in electric propagator with thermometer, inside greenhous, Norfolk, UK, April

Nature Production / Young corns of Black pepper {Piper nigrum} Japan

Luiz Claudio Marigo / {Piper hispidinervium} source of safrole used in insecticide, Amazonas, Brazil

Mark Moffett / Costa Rican Piper Shrub (Piper arieianum) responds to the presence of symbiotic ants (Pheidole bicornis) by secreting food globules in return for protection

Mark Moffett / Costa Rican Piper Shrub (Piper arieianum) responds to the presence of symbiotic ants (Pheidole bicornis) by secreting food globules in return for protection

Piotr Naskrecki / Treefern (Cyathea sp) and Kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum), New Zealand

Roberto Rinaldi / Black pepper (Piper nigrum), Sarawak, Borneo.

Roberto Rinaldi / Person holding black pepper (Piper nigrum), being sun-dried at the Iban long house at Nanga Sumpa, Delok river, Sarawak, Borneo.

Roberto Rinaldi / Black pepper (Piper nigrum) being dried in the sun at the Iban long house at Nanga Sumpa, Delok river, Sarawak, Borneo.