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Artillery plant

Pilea trianthemoides

Artillery plant
Photo: Daderot, Public domain
Family
Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Mexico (Tamaulipas), Caribbean, Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pilea trianthemoides, the artillery plant, is a species of shrubs or subshrubs in the family Urticaceae, native to Florida and the Caribbean islands, where it grows in waste places and moist thickets. It flowers year round.

How to grow it

Pilea trianthemoides can be propagated by using herbaceous stem cuttings and rooting them with rooting hormone or by dividing root ball.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilea trianthemoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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