I think you might mean Piper Nigrum. It is the black pepper traditionally used as a seasoning. It is a vine that is a true tropical (American zone 10), and has flowers and red fruit. The fruit is dried and used as a spice.
The scientific name for the trumpet vine is Campsis radicans. It is a flowering plant species in the family Bignoniaceae.
If you mean the kind of pepper that comes in a pepper shaker, then no, it is not a fungus. Pepper comes from the dried berries of a pepper plant. The pepper plant is a sort of vine. The dried pepper berries are sometime called, "Peppercorns". They are ground up and used as a spice on food.
The scientific name for the herbal plant pepper is Piper nigrum. It is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, known for producing the black, white, and green peppercorns that are commonly used as spices in cooking.
The scientific or taxonomic name would be Ampelopsisspp.
It is a vine that produces white flowers. See the Web Link to the left.
Long pepper (Piper longum), (Pippali), sometimes called Indian long pepper, is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. Long pepper has a similar, but hotter, taste to its close relative Piper nigrum - from which black, green and white pepper are obtained. The word pepper itself is derived from the Tamil/Malayalam word for long pepper, pippali.
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Eggplant grows on a bush - not dissimilar to a pepper plant. The plant has a hard stalk and the stems of the eggplant have very sharp thorns.
Bow-Vine (as in the plant vine)
Peruvian Pepper or false pepper (Schinus molle) is and evergreen tree not to be confused with Pepper (spice) which is a vine not a tree.
No. It is a plant; a flowering vine which is toxic and causes a severe rash when it touches the skin. Bacteria are microscopic organisms, and they can cause problems too, but they are different from poison ivy.