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Piper betle

Botanic Family

Piperaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Betel
• Betle Pepper
• Lou ye (Pinyin)
• Pan (India)
• Phou (Laos
• Thai)
• Betelvine
• Sirih (Dutch)
• Tambula (Sanskrit)
• Tambuli (Hindi)
• Sirih (Hindi)
• Sireh (Hindi)
• Suruh (Malaysia)
• Betelpfeffer (German)
• Buyoc (Visayan)
• Kun (Myanmar)
• Kun-ywet-pun (Myanmar)
• Jaou (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• India to Malay Peninsula (uncertain origin)
• Vietnam
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• May-Jul

Fruiting Times

Tall dioecious evergreen glabous twining liane with glabrous stems. Coriaceous glabrous fleshy bi-lobed leaves to 150mm x 90mm. Female flower spikes to 50mm x 10mm with a bract 1mm x 1.25mm, male spikes to 2mm wide with glabrous bract 1.3mm, pale yellowish-green flowers & 120mm? Red fruit a drupe or tomentose berry

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• net
• Bodkin
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Fedde
• SAFIO