Peperomia variculata
A small, glabrous epiphytic Peperomia with slender stems and alternate, broad leaves, known only from a few sites in the humid eastern Andean foothills of central Peru (Huánuco and JunÃn). Almost nothing is published about it beyond the original description, so care is inferred from its lowland-to-premontane rainforest habitat. Treat it like other small epiphytic rainforest peperomias: warm, humid, shaded, and in an airy, quick-draining mix.
Where it grows wild
Epiphytic in humid premontane forest on the eastern slopes of the Andes, around Tingo MarÃa (Huánuco) and in JunÃn. Likely on mossy trunks and branches in the forest interior.
Recorded between about 525 and 1,125 m. Our data file had no usable wild records.
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