Piperaceae FAMILY

Piper amalago

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Pepper elder is a rather slender, often much branched, evergreen shrub or small tree, commonly growing 1.5 - 3 metres tall, though sometimes up to 6 metres[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ] In semi-cultivation as a medicinal plant in E Mexico[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, north to the Caribbean and through Central America to Mexico.

HabitatMoist or wet thickets or mixed forest, at elevations up to 2,600 metres in Guatemala[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].