Species · genus Peperomia · Piperaceae

Yerba Linda

Peperomia rotundifolia (L.) Kunth

Growth habit

epiphyte or lithophyte

Native range

Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Reference · P. rotundifolia

Cultivars of P. rotundifolia

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

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

Guide

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A small trailing epiphyte from tropical Central and South America, growing on bark and rock with fleshy, water-holding round leaves. Its succulent foliage stores moisture, so it tolerates and prefers drying between waterings; water only when the top inch of the mix is dry, and use a fast-draining, airy medium since the roots rot if left wet. Give bright indirect light and good airflow rather than direct sun.

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 7-12d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 12 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

16–26 °C

Soil mix

Free-draining mix with perlite; shallow pot

Propagation

Stem cuttings or strands rooted in moist mix

Fertilizing

Light balanced feed every 4–6 weeks in growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Inconspicuous spikes; trailing round-leaved creeper

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 7-12d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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