Peperomia udisilvestris

A New Guinea peperomia known only from type material collected in 1912 by Carl Ledermann beside the May River in the Sepik lowlands. Almost nothing is published about it beyond the collection, and its name means 'of wet forest', so grow it as a warm, humid, shaded lowland rainforest terrarium plant.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

The only known collections come from riverside rainforest ('am Fluss') on the May River, a tributary of the Sepik in northern New Guinea. The epithet refers to wet forest. Whether it grows on the ground, on rocks or on tree trunks is not recorded in the sources available.

Not recorded. The May River collecting camps were in the Sepik lowlands, so it is probably a lowland plant below a few hundred metres.

New Guinea (Sepik basin)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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