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Pilea mollis

Pilea mollis
Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0

Pilea mollis is a flowering plant in the nettle family from northeast Colombia and northern Venezuela, grown mainly as an ornamental, especially the 'Moon Valley' cultivar. It does best in bright indirect light with evenly moist soil and warm, humid conditions.

Family
Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist in the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly before watering again.
Soil
Well-draining, peat-based or houseplant potting mix.
Temperature
18–27 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Colombia to N. Venezuela
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pilea mollis is a species of flowering plant in the family Urticaceae. It is used as an ornamental plant, particularly the cultivar 'Moon Valley'.

Other Pilea plants

Aluminium Plant · Depressed clearweed · Friendship plant · Rockweed · Chinese money plant · Pilea serpyllacea · Clearweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilea mollis 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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