Family: Piperaceae
Synonym: Piper nigrum var. hirtellosum Asokan Nair & Ravindran
Vernacular name: Kurukulak, Nallamulak
Habit: Climber
Habitat: Cultivated, forest clearings
Distribution: India: Assam, Kerala, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu
Flowering and Fruiting: March-August
Key identification features: Stout woody climbers, rooting at nodes;
Leaves simple, opposite, succulent or fleshy and soft; ovate-lanceolate,
entire; Flowers polygamous, usually monoecious, spikes slender, pendulous;
stamens 2, 1 on each side of ovary; ovary globose; Drupes sessile, red when
ripe, drying black when unripe, pyriform or globose.
Uses:
Its fruits are widely used as spices in cookings as well as traditional
msdicine. Fruits are used in piles,
skin-diseases, fever, weakness, vertigo, coma, dyspepsia.
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