Peperomia rotundifolia
A tiny creeping Peperomia with thread-like stems and round, fleshy, button-like leaves, sold as trailing jade, jade necklace or creeping buttons. It grows as a mat on mossy tree trunks, rocks and rotting logs in humid forest across the Neotropics, from Mexico and the Caribbean to northeastern Argentina. It suits terrariums, small hanging pots and mounts in bright shade, and is easily killed by soggy roots.
Where it grows wild
It forms creeping mats on moss-covered trunks and branches, in rock crevices, on decaying logs and occasionally on the forest floor, rooting along its thin stems. It grows in humid lowland and lower montane forest, including the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, where many of the records come from.
Recorded from sea level to 1939 m, median 422 m (335 records); mostly lowland and foothill forest.
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