Piper guineense

This type of pepper is known by various names: (African) cubeb pepper, gorilla pepper, and - we sell it under this name - ashanti pepper. On the internet, great confusion is created by confusing this real type of pepper with grain of paradise, also called Guinea pepper, but not a real pepper. Grain of paradise is a ginger-like.

What's in a name? Piper guineense is a type of pepper called a tailed pepper, the tail is inextricably linked to the skin of the berry. This is also the case with Voatsiperifery and the Indonesian cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba), which is considered the real cubeb. In practice, the African cubeb is often neglected by using cubeb in African spice mixtures, but then the Indonesian one. There are other reasons for this than taste. African cubeb and Indonesian cubeb, they have the tail in common, but taste definitely different.