Peperomia vareschii
A little-known Venezuelan Peperomia described by Yuncker in 1963 and named after the ecologist Volkmar Vareschi. It is recorded as a subshrub from the wet tropical forests of Trujillo state in the Venezuelan Andes, and almost nothing about its habitat has been published. Treat it as a humid-forest Peperomia: bright shade, steady warmth, high humidity and an airy, quick-draining mix.
Where it grows wild
Recorded as a subshrub of wet tropical forest. No habitat notes or wild occurrence records are available, so whether it grows on the ground, on rocks or on mossy trunks is not documented. Most Andean Peperomia of this kind grow in shaded, humid forest on moss, humus or leaf litter.
No elevation is published. Trujillo state is mostly Andean, so a montane forest origin is likely, but this is an inference, not a recorded fact.
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