Peperomia quadrifolia
A small, branching peperomia with little fleshy leaves in whorls of four, widespread in the mountains of tropical America from Mexico to Bolivia and south-east Brazil. It grows as an epiphyte or on rocks in cool montane forest, pine-oak woodland and rocky highland grassland. It is a cool-to-intermediate grower that does best with cool nights, bright shade and a mix that dries a little between waterings.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it as an epiphyte on trees inside and at the edges of montane forest, on mossy rocks in forest interiors, under rocks in quartzite and ironstone rocky grasslands in Brazil, in pine-oak forest in Guatemala and El Salvador, and in mixed forest up into páramo in Colombia. It usually grows in partly lit, humid spots.
Measured wild records span 0–3705 m, median 1737 m. The Colombian plant catalogue gives 1690–3500 m in the Andes and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
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