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Peperomia asterophylla

A lowland Amazonian Peperomia from northern Peru, described by Trelease from Killip and Smith's 1929 collections along the lower Río Huallaga near Yurimaguas at about 135 m. It is a tufted, suberect, stoloniferous epiphyte with elliptic leaves 2–3 cm long in whorls of three to five and brown-velvety petioles. Unlike most Andean Peperomia it needs warm, humid rainforest conditions all year.

At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte of lowland and foothill rainforest. Specimen labels record it in rainforest on the left bank of the Río Marañón in Amazonas and in the lower Huallaga basin between Yurimaguas and Balsapuerto. Records filed under this name from Ecuador's Cordillera del Cóndor describe dense primary piedmont forest on clay-sand soil over limestone.

Peruvian records run from about 135 m (type at Santa Rosa) to 440 m on the Marañón; the Ecuadorian records are at 1130 m.

Peru

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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