pepper, native

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i.q. Climbing Pepper (see above), Piper Novae-Hollandiae, Miq.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 198:

«`Native Pepper.' An excellent tonic to the mucousmembrane. . . . One of the largest native creepers,the root being at times from six inches to a foot in diameter.The plant climbs like ivy to the tops of the tallest trees,and when full-grown weighs many tons, so that a good supplyof the drug is readily obtainable.»

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