Species · genus Peperomia · Piperaceae

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Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth

Also known as: Pepper Elder · Icing Grass · Water Grass · Clearweed · Shining Bush Plant

Growth habit

annual or lithophyte

Native range

Angola, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Zambia

Reference · P. pellucida

Cultivars of P. pellucida

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under P. pellucida yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Peperomia pellucida is a soft, succulent-stemmed annual herb of the pepper family that grows as a short-lived plant in moist, shaded ground and on damp rock faces across the tropics. Its fleshy, translucent leaves hold water and rot if left soggy, so let the top inch of mix approach dry before watering again, and give it warmth, steady humidity, and gentle filtered light rather than direct sun. Because it is naturally an annual, expect a fast life cycle; it readily self-seeds rather than persisting for years.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 4-8d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 8 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–28 °C

Soil mix

Moist, loose organic mix that drains freely

Propagation

Self-seeds readily; also stem cuttings in moist mix

Fertilizing

Light feed occasionally; often thrives with minimal feeding

Growth rate

Fast

Flowering

Frequent tiny greenish flower spikes; short-lived annual herb

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Non-toxic to cats & dogs

Peperomia (Piperaceae) — ASPCA lists multiple Peperomia non-toxic (e.g. watermelon peperomia, P. argyreia); genus-wide safe. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 4-8d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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