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Accession Data:

Piper arboreum Aublet

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Piperaceae Agardh.

  • Country of Origin: South America
  • Habitat: secondary rainforest

  • USDA Zone: 9-11?

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200400261
  • Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College
  • Provenance:
    • 15 August 2008 - Plant keyed out and identified as Piper arboreum, ssp arboreum by Felix Coe, UConn. Name changed accordingly.
    • Plant originally from Smith College labelled as Piper longum (not yet accessioned at Smith) ex Univ. Tubingen BG, Germany. from a cultivated plant
  • Accession Date: 11-08-2004
  • Bench: 3108 - EVO: Basal Angiosperms
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 03-05-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: magnoliids
  • Order: Piperales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Piperaceae
  • SubFamily: Piperoideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
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2017
2016
2015
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2008
2007

References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Cuba / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Trinidad-Tobago / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Peru / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil Southeast / Brazil North

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 07, 2017.
  2. Piper arboreum at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 07, 2017.

data regenerated on Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:48:03 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Piperaceae

Subfamily Piperoideae

  • Peperomia acuminata
  • Peperomia amphiplexus
  • Peperomia clusiifolia
  • Peperomia dahlstedtii
  • Peperomia dolabriformis
  • Peperomia glabella
  • Peperomia incana
  • Peperomia obtusifolia
  • Peperomia prostrata
  • Peperomia resediflora
  • Peperomia rubella
  • Peperomia unidentified
  • Peperomia urocarpa
  • Piper arboreum
  • Piper cenocladum
  • Piper nigrum
  • Piper sylvaticum
W/C = Wild Collected
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