Dipli
Common Name: Long pepper, Indian long pepper, Javanese long pepper
Scientific name: Piper retrofractum Vahl.
Family name: Piperaceae
Other names: Pradongkorn, Panun (central), Dipli Chueak (southern), Poison Phaya Fai, Wing Maa, cabe jawa (Indonesia), chabai jawa (Malaysia), Sali (Laos).
Botanical characteristics:
Dipli is an urban plant of Southeast Asia. It is native to Moluccas in the Indian Ocean and is grown and spread in southern Thailand including in Malaysia and India.
Trunk : A vine or ivy With roots growing according to the verses Like the pepper. The trunk has a cylindrical shape, smooth surface, dark green color, and the wood is soft and brittle.
Blade : The leaves are single leaves alternately on the branches. They are oval, elongated, and parallel to the base of the leaves, somewhat rounded, with a pointed tip, leaves similar to the leaves of Thai chili, and the leaves of Cha Plu. Leaves 3-6 cm wide, 7-16 cm long, short petioles, 5-10 mm long, both side plates are not the same size. The leaf surface is dark green and shiny. The middle of the leaf has 2 pairs of strands at the base of the leaf 3-5 pairs.
flower : The flowers are like a bouquet of flowers that are packed tightly between the leaves Separate sex flowers Inflorescences of different sexes are located in different trees.
Fruit : The fruit is compacted, about 1 cm long, about 2.5-5 cm long and yellowish green. The mature fruit is dark green. When ripe, the fruit will turn red. When eaten, it gives a slightly spicy and bitter taste as well as a strong pungent smell.
Benefit :
1. Saud Dipli fruit can be eaten as fresh vegetables.
2. The mature fruit can be used to pound chili paste instead of chili. Or in some local area, it is used to decorate in pickles as well as chili peppers.
3. The soft dipli shoots can be used to put in the rice salad.
4. Dipli, dry, spicy, bitter taste Can be used as an appliance in cooking By bringing the ripe Dipli fruit to dry and then use it as a seasoning for roasted curry or red curry to better deodorize the fishy smell of meat. And also help seasoning, flavoring, and appetizing It can also be used to flavor pickles as well.
5. Dipli spice can help remove the fishy smell of meat as well.
6. Helps to preserve food to prevent spoilage.
7. In addition to being grown as a spice and herbal medicine. Also planted as an ornamental plant to admire the fresh green leaves look moist. Or plant to see the yellow fruit that is almost ripe as well.
8. Dipli fruit contains essential oils that can kill insects, weevils and pea beetles. And may be extracted as a natural insecticide formula
9.Depli is grown in a commercial way for the production of traditional medicine or herbal medicine. With both being grown as a main crop and a supplement crop The main production sites in our home are Ban Mai Subdistrict, Phang Tru Subdistrict, Tha Muang District, Tha Maka District, Mueang District, Kanchanaburi Province. Other production sites are Nakhon Pathom, Chanthaburi and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces.