Pilea cataractae
A critically endangered Pilea endemic to Mauritius, named for waterfalls. The herbarium labels place it on vertical cliff faces and large rocks in moist sites at the foot of the Cascade 500 Pieds on the Rivière des Galets. Its home is a spray-soaked rock face, so for growers that means a humid terrarium, shade, a porous rocky medium that stays moist and fresh air. No wild climate could be measured, so the targets below are estimates.
Where it grows wild
Collected on the vertical face of a cliff and on large rocks at the foot of a waterfall, in constantly moist, spray-fed conditions. The IUCN habitat class quoted on Wikipedia is subtropical or tropical dry forest, but that is a broad category, and the collection labels clearly describe a wet rock-face microhabitat.
No elevation is recorded on the specimens and no wild records were usable for climate measurement.
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