Peperomia clusiifolia
The red-edge peperomia is a sturdy, upright to sprawling Jamaican endemic with thick, glossy leaves narrowly rimmed in red. Herbarium labels place it on the limestone hills of Jamaica: in rock crevices, on humus in shaded scrubby forest, and in hollow logs. It takes a warm, fairly dry-seasonal climate, so it wants a mix that dries between waterings rather than a constantly wet terrarium.
Where it grows wild
On Jamaica's limestone hills it grows in crevices of rock on hillsides covered with palm scrub, on rock ledges and humus in shaded dry scrubby forest, in gullies of interior limestone hills, and in hollow or fallen logs. It is a lithophyte or low epiphyte on rotting wood. Its thick, succulent leaves reflect a habitat that dries out between rains.
Measured wild records are at 100–750 m, median 305 m. Herbarium labels also give sites near 1000–1275 m (and one of about 1200 m, stated as 4000 ft).
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