Piper betle L.

Perennial plant that can climb up to 4 m tall. The plant has a strong pungent smell with aromatic flavour when the leaves are crushed. Leaves are simple, in alternate arrangement, glabrous, leathery, abaxially densely glandular and abaxially glabrous. Leaf blade is ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, cordate or rounded at base with entire margin. Stems are thick, slightly woody and rooted at nodes. Flowers are very small, erect and spiky. Inflorescence a spike arising at leaf axils. Fruit a reddish globose berry.