Peperomia talinifolia
An upright, branching Andean and Central American peperomia with fleshy, hairless, darkly veined oblong leaves. It grows as a hemiepiphyte and small subshrub in montane and upper-montane cloud forest, mostly at 2000–3400 m. It is a cool-growing plant for a highland terrarium, not a warm windowsill peperomia.
Where it grows wild
It grows as a hemiepiphyte, starting on mossy trunks, logs and banks, and as a small subshrub in wet montane forest. Records include cloud forest in the Talamanca range of Costa Rica at 2700 m, montane forest in the Bolivian Yungas at 2080 m, and the edge of páramo (ceja de páramo) in northern Ecuador at 3400 m.
48 records give 762–3400 m, median 2750 m. Most are at 2000–3400 m. The lowest values are probably coordinate or elevation errors, since several Costa Rican records give single-digit elevations for sites in the mountains.
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