General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 8a -12.2 °C (10 °F) to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Groundcover
Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Vegetable
Salad greens
Cooked greens
Suitable as Annual
Edible Parts: Leaves
Fruit
Eating Methods: Tea
Culinary Herb/Spice
Raw
Cooked
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Suitable for hanging baskets
Miscellaneous: Dioecious

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Common names
  • Wild Betel Leaf
  • Wild Pepper
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Piper sarmentosum
  • Synonym: Piper lolot

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Location: Montreal bot garden, Quebec CA
Date: 2017-08
grown in conservatory
Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA (my garden)
Date: June 26, 2015
This plant makes a bloom but the seeds may be sterile.
Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Date: 2013-09-23
Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26
Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Date: 2014-07-19
Photo by greene
Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA (my garden)
Date: June 26, 2015
This plant can be easily propagated from cuttings.
Photo by pphanfx

credit: Prenn
Comments:
  • Posted by greene (Savannah, GA (Sunset 28) - Zone 8b) on Jul 12, 2013 8:57 AM concerning plant:
    This is a Southeast Asian culinary vegetable having very shiny, heart-shaped leaves. It has no official English common name, but is sometimes called 'wild betel leaf.' It prefers to grow in damp shade, a trailing groundcover plant. Piperales order; Piperaceae family. In Thai it is chaphlu/ cha phlu/cha pluu/cha pluey.

    The use of the common name may cause this plant to be confused with Piper betle/Betel Pepper/Paan which is a climbing plant.
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