Peperomia pontina
A creeping, interwoven epiphytic or terrestrial Peperomia with round, heart-shaped, purplish-green leaves 10–25 mm across and hairy stems. It comes from dense lowland and foothill forest on the eastern Andean slopes of Peru and Ecuador at about 300–1,000 m. It is a good candidate for a warm, shady terrarium, where it should scramble over moss and wood.
Where it grows wild
It grows in dense, primary humid forest, creeping over trunks, logs and the forest floor. The type was collected in dense forest near the Perené bridge in the Paucartambo valley; later collections come from primary forest in Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park and the San Matías–San Carlos protection forest.
Specimens range from about 300 m to 1,000 m, with the type at 700 m.
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