Long Pepper

Long pepper is a spice often used in Indian, Thai, Cambodian and Indonesian cooking that has been mistaken for black pepper on numerous occasions. also called pippali and pipli, is the tiny fruit that comes from the long, cone-like flower spike grown on a flowering vine of the same name. The fruits are roughly the size of a poppy seed and are used whole and ground up, often in lieu of black, white or green pepper.