Peperomia tepoztecoana
A rare tuberous Peperomia from the canyons around El Tepozteco near Tepoztlán in Morelos, central Mexico, where it grows on shady rock walls within seasonally dry tropical forest. A large tuber, up to about 7 cm long with contorted trunk-like outgrowths, sends up a few leaves only in the summer rainy season, roughly May to August, and the plant rests leafless through the long dry season. Grow it like a caudiciform geophyte: water in the warm growing season and keep it dry while dormant.
Where it grows wild
Shaded rock walls of deep canyons in the dry tropical forest zone, where the tuber wedges into crevices and ledges and the leaves appear only while the summer rains keep the rock moist.
No elevations are recorded in our data. The single record lies near Tepoztlán, which sits at about 1,700 m in a valley below peaks reaching 2,300 m, so the plant likely grows around 1,500–2,000 m.
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