Peperomia herrerae

A small, branched, hairless epiphytic Peperomia from the high Andes of Cusco, Peru, with opposite elliptic leaves about 2–2.5 cm long and slender spikes 4–5 cm long. It was collected around 2,800–3,500 m in Paucartambo province, which makes it a genuinely cold-growing plant. Almost nothing is published about its ecology, so treat it as a cool, misty upper-montane cloud-forest epiphyte.

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte in wet upper-montane forest of the Paucartambo area in Cusco, on the eastern Andean slope. Beyond the type collection at Hacienda Churu and a handful of herbarium sheets, no habitat detail has been recorded.

The type was collected at about 3,500 m; one other herbarium record is from 2,800 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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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.