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    Piper excelsum (formerly known as Macropiper excelsum) of the pepper family (Piperaceae) and commonly known as kawakawa, is a small tree of which the...
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    Piper caducibracteum, Piper excelsum, Piper ornatum, and Piper sarmentosum. Black pepper (Piper nigrum) and long pepper (Piper longum) were also extensively...
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    Kava (redirect from Piper methysticum)
    sense of "false kava". In New Zealand, it was applied to the kawakawa (Piper excelsum), which is endemic to New Zealand and nearby Norfolk Island and Lord...
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    Piper excelsum subsp. psittacorum, commonly known as pepper tree or kava, is a flowering plant in the family Piperaceae. The subspecific epithet means...
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  • to: Piper hooglandii, endemic to Lord Howe Island, is locally known as "kava" Piper excelsum subsp. psittacorum, a subspecies of Piper excelsum is commonly...
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    Black pepper (redirect from Piper nigrum)
    found and readily available. In New Zealand, the seeds of kawakawa (Piper excelsum), a relative of black pepper, are sometimes used as pepper; the leaves...
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    is named after the similarly-coloured leaves of the kawakawa tree (Piper excelsum). It is the most common variety of pounamu, and the most used in the...
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    (Pseudopanax lessonii). Native understory plants include Kawa Kawa(Piper excelsum) and Karamū(Coprosma robusta). A variety of ferns have also been noted...
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  • human consumption). In New Zealand, it was applied to the kawakawa (Piper excelsum) which is endemic to New Zealand and nearby Norfolk Island and Lord...
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  • ewanii Yunck. Piper exactum Trel. & Standl. Piper exasperatum Vahl Piper excavatum Ruiz & Pav. Piper excelsum G.Forst. Piper excessum Trel. Piper exiguicaule...
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    (hence "bamboo-ish") in tropical islands, kawakawa (Piper excelsum) after the tropical kawa (Piper methysticum, hence the former conveying a "kawa-ish"...
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    controlled through fumigation using kauri gum or dried kawakawa leaves (Piper excelsum). Today, insect pests include potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella)...
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  • "tea tree". Early settlers also used the leaves of the kawakawa tree (Piper excelsum) for tea. In 1882 the Tea Examination Act created a testing regime that...
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    found in New Zealand. The larval host species for R. scotosialis is Piper excelsum. This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 from specimens...
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    (mangeao), Alectryon excelsus (tītoki), Melicytus ramiflorus (māhoe), Piper excelsum (kawakawa) and Pseudopanax lessonii (houpara) growing in a primarily...
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    the largest stands of the species surviving in Canterbury. Kawakawa (Piper excelsum), New Zealand passion vine (Passiflora tetrandra) and both species of...
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    habitats in localised sites. Duvaucel's gecko prefers fruit from Kawakawa (Piper excelsum), Coprosma robusta, and Muehlenbeckia astonii species. Individuals will...
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    Robust skinks are also known to feed on plants such as native Kawakawa (Piper excelsum) and nightshade (Solanum). Robust skinks have also been recorded to...
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  • Zealand it almost always refers to the Agathis australis. Kawakawa Piper excelsum See note after Kiwikiwi (below). Kiekie Freycinetia banksii Kiokio Palm-leaf...
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    variety of shrubs including Griselinia littoralis, Myrsine salicina, Piper excelsum, Didymocheton spectabilis as well as Citrus species. Adult females lay...
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    ethnology to pharmacology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 1420023373. "Macropiper Excelsum - Maori Kava". Entheology.org. Retrieved 13 January 2013. "Psilocybian...
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  • wibomii Piper achupallasense Piper azuaiense Piper baezense Piper barberi Piper begoniiforme Piper brachipilum Piper brachystylum Piper campii Piper chimborazoense...
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  • tablahuasiana Piper angamarcanum Piper baezanum Piper bullatifolium Piper clathratum Piper entradense Piper eustylum Piper gualeanum Piper guayasanum Piper hydrolapathum...
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    (pepper) described in 1997 as Macropiper excelsum subsp peltatum f. delangei and now placed in Piper, as P. excelsum subsp. delangei is named in his honour...
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    Milicia excelsa; excelsior cone, Conus excelsus excelsus – excelsa – excelsum exiguus L small, slight scanty frog, Cophixalus exiguus; tongue louse,...
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  • tabularis Dysoxylum alliaceum Entandrophragma caudatum Entandrophragma excelsum Toona ciliata Trichilia lovettii Trichilia stellato-tomentosa Turraea mombassana...
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  • Rhododendron evelyneae Danet Rhododendron exasperatum Tagg Rhododendron excelsum A.Chev. Rhododendron extrorsum J.J.Sm. Rhododendron exuberans (Sleumer)...
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  • tetraphylla Piper argyrophyllum Piper boehmeriifolium Piper longum Piper muricatum Piper aff. pedicellatum Piper aff. peepuloides Piper retrofractum...
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  • Gouania australiana Grammitis albosetosa Grammitis leonardii Graptophyllum excelsum Grevillea cyranostigma Grevillea singuliflora Grewia graniticola Gymnostoma...
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  • insularum* H.H.Hume ex Moldenke Zephyranthes wrightii* Baker Anacardium excelsum (Bertero & Balb. ex Kunth) Skeels Comocladia dentata Jacq. Comocladia intermedia*...
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