Pepper shuka ne. Yawanci yana nufin baƙar fata. Akwai wasu tsire-tsire ko kayan kamshi waɗanda wani lokaci ake kira barkono. Baƙar fata yana da mahimmancin yaji don yin wani abu ya fi zafi.
Tushen barkono ya fito ne daga Asiya. An kuma yi amfani da ita a can a matsayin magani a baya: barkono ance yana taimakawa wajen magance gudawa da sauran matsalolin narkewa, matsalolin zuciya, da dai sauransu. A gaskiya ma, barkono sau da yawa zai zama cutarwa ga irin waɗannan cututtuka.
A Turai, barkono ya shahara a matsayin kayan yaji, amma ya kashe kuɗi da yawa. A ƙarshen Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar Tsakiyar, kama shi ke da wuya saboda ba zai yiwu ba daga Larabawa zuwa Indiya. Jiragen da ke dauke da barkonon tsohuwa daga nan sai da suka yi ta tafiya har zuwa Afirka. Lokacin da Christopher Columbus ya yi tafiya zuwa Amurka, shi ma yana sha'awar barkono. Chili, paprika mai zafi, ya zo daga baya daga Amurka. Ta ɗan maye gurbin barkono a matsayin yaji.
Tsire-tsire na barkono suna hawa bishiya, har zuwa mita goma. Barkono, wanda aka yi kayan yaji, yana girma a cikin ƙananan spikes. A yau, barkono galibi yana fitowa daga Vietnam, Indonesia, da sauran ƙasashe a Asiya, amma kuma daga Brazil.