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Piper caninum Blume

Species

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Characteristics

Dioecious vine, sparsely covered with erect hairs. Leaves with petioles 0.4–3.6 (–8) cm long; lamina broadly to narrowly ovate or elliptic, 6–21 cm long, 1.7–12 cm wide, upper surface glabrous; base cuneate to lobed, asymmetric or symmetric; apex acuminate; 2 or 3 pairs of secondary veins arising basally from midvein, one pair slightly above. Spikes solitary, leaf-opposed, narrow; peduncle 0.4–3 cm long; bract margins entire, glabrous. Rachis hairy: male 1.5–7 cm long; female pendulous, 1.2–18 cm long. Stamens 2; anthers minute on long filaments. Stigmas 3 or 4, sessile. Fruit pedicellate, spherical to ovoid, 0.6–1.2 cm long, 0.25–0.7 cm diam., sparsely arranged into a narrow cylinder, red-brown at maturity; pedicel basally broad and flattened.
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A slender climbing plant. Both the twigs and leaf stalks have scattered hairs. The leaf blade is oval and 14 cm long by 7 cm wide. Male and female flowers are separate. The female flowering organ is as long as the leaves. The male flowering shoots are longer. The fruiting body is longer than the leaves. The fruit is a berry and is round. They are 4 mm long by 3 mm wide and red.
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Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Environment

Grows over tree roots and up tree trunks to considerable heights (with branches hanging down) in lowland rainforest and on rainforest margins to c. 300 m alt.
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Mixed forest and in village thickets, very common in Java, at low elevations. Lowland and upland rain forest; at elevations to 1,100 metres in Australia.
A tropical plant. It grows in mixed forests. It occurs in the lowlands.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit is used as a flavouring. The leaves are chewed with betel nut.
Uses food medicinal poison social use
Edible fruits leaves
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Cultivation

PROSEA handbook Volume 13 Spices. p 260
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Images

Piper caninum unspecified picture

Distribution

Piper caninum world distribution map, present in Australia, Indonesia, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:680776-1
WFO ID wfo-0000478755
COL ID 4J3H5
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Synonyms

Piper dagatpanum Piper caninum Piper gelalae Piper hallieri Piper haenkeanum Piper basilanum Piper boerlagei Piper bonthainense Piper acutibaccum Piper arborisedens Piper tenuipedunculum Piper marivelesanum Piper lowong Piper javanicum Piper obovatibracteum Piper perpunctatum Piper merrittii Cubeba canina Cubeba lanata Cubeba lowong Piper densibaccum Piper hirsutissimum Piper sablanum Piper lanatum Piper malaganum Piper kietanum Piper parcipilum Piper viminale Piper villilimbum Piper pilobracteatum Chavica haenkeana Chavica viminalis Peperomia lanata Piper cabadbaranum Piper apoanum Piper tenuirameum
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