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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?

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.

Weed! that's weed, man!

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!