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Peperomia vinasiana

Peperomia vinasiana
Photo: James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0

Peperomia vinasiana is a small epiphytic or lithophytic species from the pepper family, endemic to Costa Rica and found in wet tropical forest. Care advice here is drawn mainly from general knowledge of Peperomia, since the sources give no cultivation details.

Family
Piperaceae (Pepper family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Let the top few centimetres of the mix dry out, then water thoroughly; avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Chunky, fast-draining mix such as orchid bark, perlite and peat or coco.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Costa Rica
Climate
wet tropical

About

Peperomia vinasiana is a species of epiphyte or lithophyte plant from the genus Peperomia. It was first described by Casimir de Candolle and the species was published in the book "Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique 30(1): 231. 1891[1892]". It grows mainly on the wet tropical biomes.

Where it grows

It is endemic to Costa Rica. The type specimen was collected by Henri François Pittier in the district of Juan Viñas.

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 vinasiana 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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