🎨 AI-generated botanical illustration
🌱 Allspice
Pimenta dioica
spices
evergreen tree
Myrtaceae
☀️ Sun
full sun to partial shade
💧 Water
moderate to high
🗺️ Zones
[10,11]
🧪 Soil pH
5.5-7.0
🪴 Soil Type
well-drained, loamy
🚿 Drainage
Well-drained
📏 Spacing
20-25 ft
📐 Height
20-40 ft
⏱️ Maturity
5-6 years to first harvest
🤝 Companions (9)
🤝 Banana
Understory shade
🤝 Banana
Understory shade for establishing allspice trees
🤝 Coffee
Traditional Caribbean shade-grown companions
🤝 Coffee
Traditional Caribbean shade-grown companions; allspice as overstory
🤝 Comfrey
Dynamic accumulator
🤝 Comfrey
Dynamic accumulator
🤝 Marigold
Universal companion
🤝 Marigold
Universal companion
🤝 Vanilla Orchid
Vanilla climbs allspice trunk as living trellis in Caribbean agroforestry
⚠️ Keep Apart (3)
⚠️ Walnut
Juglone sensitive
⚠️ Walnut
Juglone sensitive
⚠️ none — but male and female trees needed for fruit set
📝 Growing Notes
Named 'allspice' because the dried berry tastes like a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Not a blend — a single spice. Native to Jamaica and the Caribbean. Leaves also aromatic — used like bay leaf in Caribbean cooking.
🛒 Buy Seeds & Plants
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Botanical Interests
True Leaf Market
Burpee
Territorial Seed Company
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