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Pest Alert No. 19 - False Kava

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False Kava is the term applied to plants that resemble true Kava (Piper methysticum) in appreance but lack certain complex biological chemicals, the Kave lactones, that give Kava its special qualities. These are other species of the same Piper genus.

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Konrad Englberger
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http://www.spc.int/pps/PestAlerts/PestAlertNo19-False_Kava.pdf

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