Peperomia lanosa
A little-known Peruvian Peperomia described by Trelease in 1936 from J. F. Macbride's 1923 collections at Cani, near Mito in Huánuco. Its name means woolly and refers to its hairy covering. It is known only from those collections, and nothing specific has been published about its habitat or cultivation, so the advice here is inferred from the Andean climate of the collection area and from related species.
Where it grows wild
No habitat notes survive with the collections. Cani lies in the upper Huallaga valley, a seasonally dry inter-Andean valley with scrub, rocky slopes and patches of montane woodland. Densely hairy Andean peperomias from such places usually grow on shaded rocks, earth banks or mossy tree bases rather than high in wet forest. This growth form is therefore a guess.
No elevation is recorded. Mito sits at roughly 2,700 m, so the plant probably grows at about 2,500–3,200 m.
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