Peperomia angustata
A small trailing or climbing Peperomia with narrow, fleshy leaves, growing on tree trunks, rocks and the forest floor across Mexico, Central America and northern South America. It occurs in an unusually wide range of forests, from dry deciduous forest in the Yucatán to Amazonian flooded forest, so it is tolerant in cultivation. It suits hanging pots, mounts and terrariums in bright shade.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte on trunks and branches, or trails over rocks and the ground, forming colonies. Herbarium labels record it in lowland terra firme and várzea forest in Amazonia, moist forest along streams, dry forest and scrub on slopes in Venezuela, and even thorn forest on basalt in Nicaragua. In Mexico it grows in semi-deciduous and deciduous tropical forest below about 500 m.
Recorded from 4 m to 2775 m, median 311 m (408 records); most plants are lowland.
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