Species · genus Peperomia · Piperaceae

Peperomia urvilleana

Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.

Growth habit

subshrub or epiphyte

Native range

Fiji, Kermadec Is., New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Samoa, Solomon Is., Vanuatu

Reference · P. urvilleana

Cultivars of P. urvilleana

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

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

Guide

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Peperomia urvilleana is a small subshrub to epiphyte from islands of the southwest Pacific, where it grows in airy, fast-draining situations. Its somewhat fleshy leaves store water, so it rots if left sitting wet; let the top inch of mix dry before watering, and give it a loose, well-aerated medium. Bright indirect light suits it, with no direct midday 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 peat-based mix with perlite

Propagation

Leaf or stem cuttings in moist mix

Fertilizing

Dilute balanced feed monthly in spring and summer

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Narrow greenish flower spikes; grown for compact fleshy foliage

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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