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Why Piper? Costa Rican naturalist Isidro Chacon asked me that very question in 1985, when I told him of my interest in the genus as a subject for my dissertation research. “Why such ugly and boring plants?” he said. “There are so many of them, and they all look just the same. Why not choose something with prettier flowers, or more diverse growth forms and habits?”
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Greig, N. (2004). Introduction. In: Dyer, L.A., Palmer, A.D.N. (eds) Piper: A Model Genus for Studies of Phytochemistry, Ecology, and Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30599-8_1
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