Betel leaf
ವೀಳ್ಯದೆಲೆவெற்றிலைతమలపాకు
Piper betle L.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- —
Piperaceae
Formerly Artanthe hexagyna, Betela mastica, Chavica auriculata, Chavica betle, and 29 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing shrub or lianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indo-China to MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 5.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Indonesian
- Sirih
- Chinese
- 荖藤, 蔞葉, 蒌油
- Czech
- pepřovník betelový
- Japanese
- キンマ
- Chinese (China)
- 蒌叶
- Russian
- Бетель
- Polish
- pieprz żuwny
- German
- Betel-Pfeffer
- Finnish
- betelpippuri, Betelpippuri
- Slovak
- piepor betelový
- root
- Pupulu
- Tamil
- வெற்றிலை
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Piper betle (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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