Peperomia argyreia
A compact, rosette-forming peperomia with fleshy, silver-striped leaves on red petioles, native to tropical South America (usually given as Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela). It grows in the shaded understory of humid forest on the ground, on rocks or low on trunks. The semi-succulent leaves make it more tolerant of drying out than of waterlogging. Reliable field data are scarce, and the measured climate here comes almost entirely from cultivated or naturalised plants.
Where it grows wild
Humid tropical forest understory, growing as a small terrestrial herb or low epiphyte or lithophyte in leaf litter, on mossy rocks and at tree bases. Species-specific habitat descriptions from floras were not found, so this is partly generalised from similar Neotropical peperomias.
Recorded elevations of 18–1700 m (median about 800 m) come mostly from non-native countries and say little about the wild habitat. No reliable native elevation range was found.
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