Piper retrofractum (Long Pepper)
Botanical names: Piper retrofractum, Chavica officinarum, Piper chaba, Piper officinarum
Common names: Long Pepper, Balinese Pepper
Family: Piperaceae
Origin: South East Asia





Dried mature unripe fruit are carminative, stomachic, antidiarrheal, oxytocic.
Long pepper, which tastes pungent and sweet at the same time, is more pungent than black pepper.
Similar plants: Piper retrofractum (Long Pepper)
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- Piper aduncum (Spiked Pepper)
- Piper auritum (Root Beer Plant)
- Piper betle (Betel leaf)
- Piper blattarum (Higuillo)
- Piper longum (Bengal Pepper)
- Piper magnificum (Lacquered Peppertree)
- Piper methysticum (Kava)
- Piper nigrum (Pepper)
- Piper ornatum (Celebes pepper)
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