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Peperomia urbani is a small Cuban and Haitian species in the pepper family, known from montane wet tropical forest; it is rarely grown and little is documented about cultivation, so general care is inferred from its genus.
Peperomia urbanii or Peperomia urbani is a species of flowering plant from the genus Peperomia. It was first described by William Trelease and published in the book "Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 23: 18, 27. 1926.". It primarily grows on wet tropical biomes It is named after Ignatz Urban, who had botany expeditions in the Caribbean. The species was discovered in Montelíbano, Cuba.
It is endemic to Cuba and Haiti. First specimens where found at an altitude of 700-800 meters in Guantánamo, Monte Libanon.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Peperomia urbani 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.
