Can you identify this crop?

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bitcambodia
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Can you identify this crop?

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The lady has loads of it on the farm in Takeo. I'm told it is used as an ingredient for some kind of Chinese medicine. The Khmer word for it is "desplei" or "day-ply," which translates to land fruit. Anyone have any experience with this? What is the English word for it?


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Re: Can you identify this crop?

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only a best guess.. polygonum multiflorum (or another polygonum), fo-ti in chinese.
have seen pics were it looks totally different, but also where it looks very similar.
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Re: Can you identify this crop?

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Weed! that's weed, man!
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Re: Can you identify this crop?

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I figured it out. Basically it is a kind of pepper. Here it is if anyone is interested, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_retrofractum

Thanks!
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