Peperomia trollii
Peperomia trollii is a succulent, rosette-forming Peperomia up to 60 cm tall, with a thick stem and curved, hook-tipped leaves. It comes from the dry inter-Andean valley of the RÃo Marañón in northern Peru. It grows on granite rock slides and sandy slopes among cacti and dry scrub, so it needs bright light and a clear dry season rather than terrarium humidity.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels place it on rock slides of pink and grey granite, in dry forest on sandy soil with Stipa grasses, Armatocereus cacti and Cnidoscolus, and on dry sandstone mountains with cacti and acacia. Higher up, near 2,400 m, it grows on rocky soils in submontane forest, and one record notes it in the shade of dense bushes.
Measured records run 1,045–2,378 m (median 2,378 m, 8 records), and the type locality near Balsas is at about 875 m. The species spans the hot floor of the Marañón gorge to cooler slopes.
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