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Piper salicinum is a rarely recorded pepper-family plant, possibly endemic to Guam in the Mariana Islands, known only from two 1792 herbarium specimens and not seen since. Because it is essentially unknown in cultivation, there is no established care regime.
Piper salicinum (no known common name) is a plant in the Piperaceae family that is possibly endemic to the Mariana Islands (Guam), although there is some confusion in the literature as to whether it may have been collected from Mexico and Panama. It has not been observed since its initial collection in 1792.
Two herbarium specimens are known to exist, both collected in 1792 by Czech botanist Thaddäus Haenke on the Malaspina Expedition, which had stopped in both Central America and on Guam. One specimen is stored at the herbarium of Charles University in Prague and the other is a fragment housed at the University of Illinois Herbarium.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Piper salicinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
