• Widespread distribution. In Erect, smooth, brownish stems. Leaves, alternate, simple, heart-shaped, dark green, glossy. Flower clusters creamy-white, barrel-shaped spikes. Spikes bisexual or unisexual. Fruit with single seed.
• Spread: underground rhizomes and stem pieces readily root. Longer distances via international trade (used as a food wrapper and in folk medicines).
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• Cultural control: hand-pulling; collect stem pieces and burn. Avoid using topsoil where lolo pepper grown previously.
• Chemical control: two or three applications of glyphosate.

Lolo pepper. It is also known as la lot, wild betel, Vietnamese pepper, and by local language names throughout Southeast Asia, Northern India and South China where is it used extensively in food preparation. Note, it is not the same as Piper betel, the leaves and flowers of which are chewed with betel nut, along with lime, in parts of Asia and Oceania (Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands).

Piper sarmentosum. Previously, it was known as Piper lolot. It is a member of the Piperaceae.