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Peperomia caperata
Also called Green Ripple Pepper, Little Fantasy Pepper, Emerald Ripple Peperomia
Emerald Ripple Pepper is a small, mound-forming evergreen perennial from Brazil, grown mainly for its corrugated heart-shaped leaves. It needs warmth, bright indirect light and watering only when the top of the soil dries out.
Peperomia caperata, the emerald ripple peperomia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae, native to Brazil. It is a mound-forming evergreen perennial growing to 20 cm (8 in) tall and wide, with corrugated heart-shaped leaves, and narrow spikes of white flowers 5–8 cm (2–3 in) long, in summer.
With a minimum temperature requirement of 15 °C (59 °F), P. caperata must be grown indoors in most temperate regions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Peperomia caperata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
