Peperomia tubericordata
A tuberous peperomia of subgenus Tildenia, described in 2017 from the coffee-growing mountains of Pluma Hidalgo in southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Its leaves and flower spikes rise straight from an underground tuber, and unlike most of its relatives the leaves are rounded to kidney-shaped with a heart-shaped base rather than peltate. Grow it as a seasonal geophyte: warm, humid and shaded while in leaf, then dry and dormant for the winter.
Where it grows wild
Known from Cerro Espino near Pluma Hidalgo, in the Sierra Madre del Sur above the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, including forest next to the Monte Cristo coffee plantation and the Calvario coffee estate. This is humid montane and shade-coffee forest on the Pacific slope, with a strongly seasonal climate. Tildenia species typically grow in shaded leaf litter, on mossy banks or rocks.
Collections are from about 650 m (1917 paratype) to 1250 m (2017 type).
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