Peperomia serpens
A climbing, trailing Peperomia with fleshy, heart-shaped leaves that roots along its stems as it creeps up tree trunks in humid lowland and foothill forest from Mexico and the Caribbean to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil. It is an easy plant for hanging baskets, mounts and large terrariums in warm, bright shade. The name has often been misapplied in the trade, so many plants sold as P. serpens or P. scandens are other vining species.
Where it grows wild
It is an epiphytic herb that climbs tree trunks and branches, rooting at the nodes, and also trails over logs and the ground. Herbarium labels from Ecuador describe it as an epiphytic herb with succulent, aromatic leaves that are often reddish underneath, in humid Amazonian forest and on the lower eastern Andean slopes up to cloud forest.
Recorded from sea level to 2535 m, median 450 m (510 records); most plants grow in lowland and foothill forest.
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