A glossy evergreen whose bark and leaves burn the tongue with a peppery heat. One of the most important trees in East African herbal medicine, used for chest complaints, and heavily stripped of bark elsewhere as a result.
Did you know?
Chew a leaf fragment and the pepper taste lasts for minutes.
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