Tasmanian pepper is as the name suggests originally, from Tasmania However, it also thrives in other Australian states, in News South Wales and in Victoria. It is now grown also in other tropical countries, but it is still expensive and not always readily available. Mostly it is collected laboriously from wild plants. This is certainly the reason why it is so expensive. As a spice, the berries and the leaves are used The leaves, however, I have never seen or eaten in Europe. The dried berries, however, you can find nowadays also outside of Australia. Tasmanian pepper does not belong to the pepper family. So, its name is not really…