Description, image, botany, and cultivation.

Photos, brief information, and links related to the use of over 20 species.

Detailed description of black pepper and its uses, with images.

Short description and medicinal uses of the betel plant, a climbing shrub which is indigenous throughout the Indian Malay region and is cultivated in other tropical regions.

Photograph of the plant.

Images from Pohnpei, Micronesia.

Photo of leaves and fruit.

Image of leaf margin and fruit.