Peperomia obtusifolia
The baby rubber plant is a compact, fleshy-stemmed Peperomia native across tropical America from southern Florida and the Caribbean through Mexico and Central America to Bolivia and Brazil. It grows about 25 cm tall and wide, with thick, glossy, rounded leaves that store water.
Where it grows wild
It grows in tropical forests, as a terrestrial herb on the forest floor, logs and rocks, and like many peperomias also on tree bases. Its fleshy stems and leaves let it ride out dry spells in the seasonally dry parts of its range.
Recorded from sea level to 3,100 m, with a median of about 560 m (490 records), so most wild plants grow in warm lowland and foothill forest.
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