Allspice, also called
Jamaica pepper,
pepper,
myrtle pepper,
pimenta,
Turkish Yenibahar,
English pepper or
newspice, is the dried unripe
fruit (
berries, used as a
spice) of
Pimenta dioica, a
midcanopy tree native to the
Greater Antilles, southern
Mexico, and
Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name 'allspice' was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who thought it combined the flavour of
cinnamon,
nutmeg, and
cloves.