Peperomia deppeana
A small, creeping or trailing peperomia from Mexico and Central America. It has small, fleshy leaves in whorls along angled stems. It grows mostly as an epiphyte on tree bark and in shaded, humid understory from the lowlands into the cloud-forest belt, including on the shade trees of coffee farms. Grow it like a small epiphytic peperomia: bright shade, humid but moving air, and a mix that is never waterlogged.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it as an epiphyte on bark, including on Inga and oak trees shading coffee plantations. Other labels place it in the understory along ridge crests in humid, very shaded preserved forest, and in medium-height seasonally deciduous forest in the lowlands. It is a small creeping herb with somewhat fleshy whorled leaves and ridged stems.
Measured wild records span 0–3496 m, median 1000 m. Most labelled collections are from about 800 to 2200 m, in premontane and lower montane forest.
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