Peperomia unispicata
A little-known Peperomia described by Callejas and recorded from a single wild collection on Cerro Colorado in western Panama, at about 1500 m. Grow it as a cool-intermediate terrarium plant with gentle light and constant moisture in the air, but not soggy roots.
Where it grows wild
The only known collection was made by Thomas Croat in 1988 along the road and a trail through a Guaymà (Ngäbe) village on Cerro Colorado, on the Caribbean–Pacific divide. No habitat notes were recorded. Cloud-forest peperomias there are typically low epiphytes on mossy trunks or grow on mossy banks; that is inferred, not observed for this species.
About 1500 m, the elevation on the single specimen. The weather grid cell sits at about 520 m, so the measured temperatures were corrected to 1500 m.
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