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flower

October 10, 2006, 12:47:49 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by flower
I got this cutting from a botanical garden where it was said to be piper methysticum. The thing is that the leafs doesn't look at all as the ones I've seen on pictures, could it just be a different strain than the usual, or is it something else?


Thanks :)

jokergrin

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October 10, 2006, 08:04:29 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by jokergrin
they're not as round and heart-shaped as kava usually is...your leaves are more enlongated....

I'm very and most absolutely not sure...

heh.

BotanyGuru

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October 13, 2006, 02:36:11 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by BotanyGuru
nope thats not kava at all.

i spent a few months in fiji drinking kava with the natives, and had the experience of growing and tending to the plants, and that looks nothing like it.

please view my thread here.
it has quite a few pics of the plant itself, and the process of brewing.
I was born to do this

flower

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October 14, 2006, 04:44:00 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by flower
Quote from: "BotanyGuru"nope thats not kava at all.

i spent a few months in fiji drinking kava with the natives, and had the experience of growing and tending to the plants, and that looks nothing like it.

please view my thread here.
it has quite a few pics of the plant itself, and the process of brewing.

Ok, thanks BotanyGuru for the link!

If someone have real kava cuttings to trade or sell please send me a PM :)

flower

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October 15, 2006, 10:15:20 AM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by flower
I think the plant is a piper at least since it looks like one. The leafs doesn't smell anything when i rub them, how does kava smell? My piper betle on the other hand smells like hotdogs, are that right?
Here are a few better pictures of the plant, any id help would be nice.


Stonehenge

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October 15, 2006, 04:16:30 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by Stonehenge
It doesn't look like the kava plants I use to have. There are a lot of related species.
Stoney

BotanyGuru

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October 19, 2006, 04:16:26 AM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by BotanyGuru
it could be a possibility that you were sold Macropiper Excelsum instead, which is a different kind of kava, and the leafs of that can range in shape.

Let it grow out a little more, but i agree it resembles a piper family plant, due to the appearance of its stems.
I was born to do this

Thinair

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February 02, 2007, 03:29:12 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by Thinair
I know absolutely nawt me, but I saw a picture of a young Toé/Brugmansia plant recently and it looked just like that  first one :?

Best wishes,

Marion.
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
- Blood of Eden, Peter Gabrial

flower

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March 10, 2007, 01:19:26 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by flower
Thanks for the help, the mystery is solved. I was told via PM that this is a longpepper, and im sure that is correct.  
Still looking for a kava cutting :wink:
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