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Peperomia umbrigaudens

Peperomia umbrigaudens
Photo: Meise Botanic Garden, CC BY-SA 4.0

Peperomia umbrigaudens is a rhizomatous epiphytic succulent herb from the pepper family, native to wet tropical forests of Panama and Colombia. It is a wild species rarely grown in cultivation, so its care follows general Peperomia practice.

Family
Piperaceae (Pepper family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Let the top few centimetres of mixed potting medium dry out between thorough waterings.
Soil
Loose, airy epiphyte mix with bark, perlite and peat or coir.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Panama to Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Peperomia umbrigaudens is a species of epiphyte from the genus Peperomia. It was first described by Truman G. Yuncker and published in the book "Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 37(1): 81. 1950. (31 Mar 1950)". It primarily grows on wet tropical biomes.

Where it grows

It is endemic to Colombia and Panama

Other Peperomia plants

Peperomia abnormis · Peperomia aceramarcana · Peperomia acuminata · Peperomia aerea · Peperomia aguabonitensis · Peperomia ainana · Winged peperomia · Peperomia alatiscapa · Peperomia albovittata · Peperomia amphitricha · Peperomia angustata · Peperomia antoniana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Peperomia umbrigaudens 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.

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