Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-622.65.11
Piper guineense
Synonyms: Cubeba clusii; Piper clusii; Piper famechonii; Piper laurentii; Piper leonense.
English: Uziza pepper; Ashanti pepper; Benin pepper; Guinea pepper; False cubeb: Guinea cubeb.
Names: Uziza; Kale; Kukauabe; Masoro; Sasema,; Soro wisa.
Content: dillapiol, piperine, elemicine, myristicine, safrole; flavonoids, alkaloids, glycosides, essential oils, tannins, saponins, peptides, phenols; essential oils.
Region: West Africa, Senegal to southern Sudan, south to DR Congo, Zambia and Tanzania.
Use: medicinal; insecticidal; culinary, dietary, fruits dried as a spice, milder Piper nigrum, flavouring soups, rice, foods; chewed with Areca catechu as a substitute for Piper betle; ash as a salt substitute; roots as chew sticks for cleaning the teeth; aphrodisiac.
Taxonomy: closely related to long pepper, cubeb pepper and black pepper.
Botany: evergreen climbing shrub, supports itself by means of adventitious root; woody stems from 4 - 20 metres tall; habitat evergreen rain-forest, forest edges, wet places, gallery forest, along rocky rivers; 750 - 1650 metres; dioecious.
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