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  • Piper Nigrum (Pepper)
  • Augustus Joseph Pepper. Photograph by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company.
  • Capsicum Annuum (Chilli pepper)
  • Capsicum Annuum (Chilli pepper)
  • Ming herbal (painting): [Black] pepper
  • Pepper plant (Piper nigrum L.): fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper.
  • Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper.
  • Chilli or pepper plant (Capsicum annuum): fruiting stem. Watercolour.
  • A chilli pepper (Capsicum annum) and a separate leafy stem. Watercolour.
  • Half pound tin of the finest ground white pepper / Peter Leech & Son.
  • Two flowering plants: meadow saxifrage (Saxifraga granulata) and wall pepper or stonecrop (Sedum acre).
  • Water pepper plant (Polygonum hydropiper) and two square segments of a gel-like substance. Watercolour.
  • Stonecrop or wall pepper plant (Sedum acre) with an associated beetle and anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Six British wild flowers, including water pepper and knotweed (Polygonum species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Greek salad : made with cos lettuce, watercress, beefsteak tomatoes, green pepper, spring onions, cucumber, feta cheese and olives / Tesco.
  • Five flowering plants, including water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper) and redleg (Polygonum persicaria). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Greek salad : made with cos lettuce, watercress, beefsteak tomatoes, green pepper, spring onions, cucumber, feta cheese and olives / Tesco.
  • A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • I want to give more than money : a little time... a little effort... a dash of salt and pepper... / The Food Chain.
  • I want to give more than money : a little time... a little effort... a dash of salt and pepper... / The Food Chain.
  • I want to give more than money : a little time... a little effort... a dash of salt and pepper... / The Food Chain.
  • I want to give more than money : a little time... a little effort... a dash of salt and pepper... / The Food Chain.
  • I want to give more than money : a little time... a little effort... a dash of salt and pepper... / The Food Chain.
  • A fruiting Abutilon species, a fruiting pepper plant (Capsicum sp.) and a flowering Sisyrinchium orientale. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a pepper-seed sore (hordeolum internum) on his eyeball. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • Taco mixed beans : mixed beans in a spicy tomato sauce with red peppers : 440 g / Tesco Stores Ltd.