Peperomia subblanda
A densely hairy peperomia from Mexico and northern Central America with stems that root at the base and grow erect and branched above, leaves in whorls of three or four, and terminal flower spikes up to 25 cm long. It grows on the ground or on trees in moist forest across a wide span of elevations, most often around 1000-1500 m. It is not a known houseplant, so the care here is built from its habitat and range.
Where it grows wild
It grows in moist broadleaf forest, both on the ground and as an epiphyte. Its record sites run from the Sierra Madre Oriental in Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí through Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, mostly in montane and pine-oak forest.
Recorded elevations run from 170 to 3500 m, median 1265 m (42 records). The top of that range is unusually high and may reflect imprecise records.
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