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Piper sylvaticum is a herbaceous, dioecious climber in the pepper family that grows in the wet tropical forests of the eastern Himalaya, Bangladesh and nearby regions. It is a wild forest climber, not a commonly cultivated garden or houseplant, so growing it is mainly a matter of mimicking humid understory conditions.
Piper sylvaticum is a climber in the Piperaceae, or pepper, family. It is found in the northeast of the Indian subcontinent, and in China. The fruits are used in medicinal products.
The plant is native to Bangladesh and the Eastern Himalaya region. The Flora of China warns that the application of this name to Chinese plants is unclear, however it states that the climber is found in Tibet (see also) and South Yunnan, as well as Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.
In the Indian subcontinent the leaves are used as vegetables, and the roots are used in indigenous medicine as a cure for snake poison and to treat tumours.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Piper sylvaticum 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.
