Peperomia urocarpa
A small, creeping Peperomia found widely from Mexico and the Caribbean through much of South America. It is especially common in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, where it grows on trunks, mossy streamside rocks and humus in shaded understory. It is an easy, shade-tolerant terrarium plant for anyone who can keep it evenly moist.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it as an epiphyte, on rocks along streams (riparian, rupÃcola), trailing over wet rocks and rooting in humus in the understory. They often call it ciófila or semi-ciófila (shade-loving to semi-shade).
From near sea level to about 2,000 m. In Colombia 5-2,000 m; Brazilian specimens mostly 90-1,150 m, a few near 1,950 m.
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