Peperomia monticola

A small tuberous Peperomia from the highlands of central and southern Mexico. It survives the long dry season as an underground tuber, and sends up new stems and fleshy leaves when the summer rains arrive. It grows in humid, shaded sandy pockets, rock crevices and barrancas in oak, pine–oak and cloud forest at about 1,500–2,500 m, and needs a warm, wet summer and a cool, dry winter rest.