Kaadu kuruppai PRODUCT NAME
Piper nigrum Linn. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Kaadu kuruppai |
| Local Name: | Kaadu kuruppai (Irula + Kurumba); Tamil-Milagu |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
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| Product Description: | A vine Flower: In axillary spikes, greenish Fruit: A globose berry, ovoid, smooth, black or dark brown when mature. Seed single, round smooth Leaf 5-nerved at base |
| NTFP Classification: | Medicinal, aromatics and cosmetics, Food and food ingredients (plant-derived) |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | India Sri Lanka |
| Description: | Hills above 1200. In shaded moist evergreen forests across Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. |
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| Management Practices: | Fruit sold to traders, used to adulterate cultivated pepper. Used by adivasis to make rasam with a less pungent flavour |
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| Partners: | Keystone Foundation |
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