Long pepper (Piper longum), sometimes called
Javanese Long Pepper, Indian Long Pepper or Indonesian Long Pepper,
is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its
fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning.
Long pepper is a close relative of the black
pepper plant, and has a similar, though generally hotter, taste.
The word pepper itself is derived from the Sanskrit word for
long pepper, pippali. The fruit of the pepper consists of many
minuscule fruits — each about the size of a poppy seed —
embedded in the surface of a flower spike; it closely resembles
a hazel tree catkin. Another species of long pepper, Piper
retrofractum, is native to Java, Indonesia.
Dried long pepper catkins
The above information is from wikipedia.
Piper longum Linn. (Indian Long
pepper)
Hindi- Pipal, Pipli, Piplamul;
Bengali- Piplamor; Marathi- Pimpli; Gujarat-
Pipli; Telugu- Pippuloo; Tamil- Tippali; Pippili,
Sirumulam, Kandan Tippili; Malayalam-Tippali, Pippali,
Aamgadhi