Bibo is a kind of spice, which plays a role in refreshing and improving the taste of stewed meat. Bibo is a commonly used condiment, which has the function of correcting flavor and enhancing fragrance, and is mostly used for cooking, roasting, stewing and other dishes. It is also one of the halogen spices.

Bibo is also known as piper longum, and the Chinese medicine piper longum is the ear of piper longum. It has a special aroma, pungent and hot in taste, and belongs to the stomach, spleen and large intestine meridian. It is better to be fat, full and solid, dark and brown in color and strong in smell.

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Biological characteristics

Male inflorescence is 4-5cm long and about 3mm in diameter; The total pedicel is 2-3 cm long and is very fine powdery pubescent; Inflorescence rachis glabrous; Bracts suborbicular, sometimes slightly narrower at the base, about 1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous, shortly stipitate, peltate; 2 stamens, elliptic anthers and extremely short filaments.

The female inflorescence is 1.5-2.5 cm long and about 4 mm in diameter, which is prolonged in fruit. The total pedicel and inflorescence axis are the same as those of male inflorescence, except that the bracts are slightly smaller, with a diameter of .9-1 mm; Ovary ovoid, lower part connate with inflorescence axis, stigma 3, ovoid, apex pointed. The lower part of the berry is embedded in the inflorescence axis and connate with it, and the upper part is round, with umbilical protuberance at the top, hairless and about 2 mm in diameter. Flowering period is July-October.

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