It originated near the city of Cayenne, French Guiana in South America.
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.
No, not if you put it on it. Make sure that it doesn't get into its water supply. Then your plant will die. If you are trying to get squirrels away from your plant, its best to put cayenne pepper in front of your plants or a little on your plants. Remember, it does rain.
No. The pepper plant is a vegetable. Its seed is called a peppercorn. Ground pepper is a peppercorn which has been ground up.
Oh my god... no. NO. Pepper is a spice. It is a ground up plant.
Black pepper consists of ground dried peppercorns, which are the tiny fruits of the pepper plant Piper nigrum.
No, the bell pepper is the fruit of the Capsicum annuum plant and grows above ground.
The peppers can be red or green in color. The heat producing part of the plant actually has no color at all.
Ground Ginger comes from the ground lol it comes from plants!!!!!!!
No, a leaf turns yellow when it doesn't get enough sunlight. The yellow comes from a yellow nutrient in the ground called mispickel.
Salt is a mineral, sodium chloride. It's mined from the ground or evaporated from sea water. Pepper is the dried seed of the pepper plant.
I wish I had your problem, we have no squirrels here, but if you sprinkle cayenne pepper in and around the pots the little guys will stay away.