Long pepper (Piper longum), (Pippali) or Indian long pepper is cultivated for its fruit, which is used as a spice and a seasoning agent.

Long pepper has a similar, but hotter taste than black pepper.

The fruit of the pepper consists of many minuscule fruits embedded in the surface of a flower spike.

Today long pepper is an extremely rare ingredient in European cuisines.

Indian vegetable pickles, North African spice mixture still use this. So also the cooking in Indonesia and Malaysia.

It is readily available at Indian grocery stores, where it is usually labeled pippali.

Pippali is one of the most widely used Ayur Vedic herbs.

Indian naming:-

Malayalam…….tippali, pippali

Sanskrit………Pippali rasayana.

Tamil….. கண்டந்திப்பிலி (kandanthippili)

Kannada…..hippali

Telugu……..pippali.

Bengali……..pipul