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Mexican Pepper leaf (Piper auritum)

The plant of many names: Piper auritum, Mexican pepperleaf, hoja santa, yerba santa, acuyo, anisillo or the root beer plant.

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Piper auritum leaves and fruit. Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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