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Date: 3 Aug 2024

How to always have your own Root Beer

How to always have your own Root Beer

  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.

  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.

  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.

  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.

  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


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Date: 3 Aug 2024

How to always have your own Root Beer

How to always have your own Root Beer

  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.

  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.

  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.

  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.

  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


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Learn more about Piper plants

🛒 Grow your own Root Beer Plant

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Date: 3 Aug 2024

How to always have your own Root Beer

Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava

How to always have your own Root Beer
  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


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🛒 Grow your own Root Beer Plant

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Date: 3 Aug 2024

This is what butterflies love

Odontonema - Butterfly Bush

😍 This is what butterflies love

💥 Odontonema - Butterfly Bush - is blooming since early spring non stop, attracting lots of butterflies in our garden.

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Date: 2 Aug 2024

The most difficult thing is the decision to act

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😰 "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

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