Peperomia

• Peperomia nitida 'Crane's Flecked'
• Peperomia argyreia 'Harmony’s Gold Dust Woman'
• Peperomia rugosa 'Harmony’s Great Pumpkin'
• Peperomia caperata ‘Harmony’s Midnight Wave’
• Peperomia × Little Toscani
• Peperomia marmorata 'Silver Heart'
• Peperomia caperata 'Mendoza'
• Peperomia meridana 'Variegata'
• Peperomia metallica 'Colombiana'
• Peperomia metallica 'Narrow Form'
• Peperomia 'Milano'
• Peperomia × Napoli Nights
• Peperomia griseo-argentea 'Wavy Gravy'
• Peperomia nitida 'Variegata'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Golden Cais'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Golden Gate'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Green Gold'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Lime Green'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Marble'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Red Canyon'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Variegata'
• Peperomia orba 'Pixie'
• Peperomia orba 'Pixie Lime'
• Peperomia caperata 'Silver Ripple'
• Peperomia caperata 'Abricos'
• Peperomia caperata 'Black Ripple'
• Peperomia caperata 'Burbella'
• Peperomia caperata 'Lilian'
• Peperomia caperata 'Luna Red'
• Peperomia caperata 'Moonlight'
• Peperomia caperata 'Pink Lady'
• Peperomia caperata 'Pink Lady Variegata'
• Peperomia caperata 'Quito'
• Peperomia caperata ‘Ripple Variegata’
• Peperomia caperata 'Shumi Red'
• Peperomia orba ‘Silver Shadow'
• Peperomia caperata 'Teresa'
• Peperomia clusiifolia 'Black Knight'
• Peperomia clusiifolia 'Tricolor'
• Peperomia clusiifolia 'Variegata'
• Peperomia cubensis 'Variegata'
• Peperomia × Eden Rosso
• Peperomia 'Frost'
• Peperomia 'Fuzzy Mistery'
• Peperomia glabella 'Red Stem'
• Peperomia griseo-argentea 'Blackie'
• Peperomia caperata 'Montevideo'
• Peperomia dolabriformis 'Variegata'
• Peperomia dolabriformis var. glaucescens
• Peperomia caespitosa
• Peperomia 'Silver Bandit'
• Peperomia sp. Morro de Capao
• Peperomia nivalis var. lepadiphylla
• Peperomia orba
• Peperomia angustata 'Variegata'
• Peperomia guttulata
• Peperomia caperata 'Cayenne'
• Peperomia caperata 'Buenos Aires'
• Peperomia caperata
• Peperomia caperata 'Caracas'
• Peperomia caperata 'Amazonas'
• Peperomia fraseri
• Peperomia 'Green Bubble'
• Peperomia 'Royal Princess'
• Peperomia obtusifolia 'Burning Bush'
• Peperomia caperata 'Chocolate'
• Peperomia caperata 'Burgundy'
• Peperomia albovittata 'Mystique'
• Peperomia argyreia 'Ice Queen'
• Peperomia rugosa 'Aussie Gold'
• Peperomia orba 'Variegata'
• Peperomia 'Peppermill'
• Peperomia 'Pepperspot'
• Peperomia albovittata 'Piccolo Banda'
• Peperomia polybotrya 'Variegata'
• Peperomia albovittata 'Rana Verde'
• Peperomia albovittata 'Rana Verde Variegata'
• Peperomia × Red Log
• Peperomia × Red Rosso
• Peperomia resediflora 'Variegata'
• Peperomia 'Ruby Cascade'
• Peperomia caperata 'Brasilia'
• Peperomia rugosa 'Equador'
• Peperomia × San Marino
• Peperomia 'Santorini'
• Peperomia Saksun
• Peperomia caperata 'Steve’s Leaves Chameleon'
• Peperomia × Sunrise
• Peperomia velutina 'Bicolor'
• Peperomia verticillata 'Belly Button'
• Peperomia acuminata
• Peperomia albovittata
• Peperomia hutchisonii
• Peperomia flexicaulis
• Peperomia galapagensis
• Peperomia galioides
• Peperomia glabella
• Peperomia graveolens
• Peperomia griseo-argentea
• Peperomia hartwegiana
• Peperomia hirta
• Peperomia hispidula
• Peperomia hoffmannii
• Peperomia hunteriana
• Peperomia ferreyrae
• Peperomia hylophilla
• Peperomia inaequalifolia
• Peperomia incana
• Peperomia jalcaensis
• Peperomia jamesoniana var. longifolia
• Peperomia japonica
• Peperomia kimnachii
• Peperomia lanuginosa
• Peperomia macrostachyos
• Peperomia maculosa
• Peperomia columella
• Peperomia antoniana
• Peperomia argyreia
• Peperomia asperula
• Peperomia bangroana
• Peperomia berteroana
• Peperomia blanda
• Peperomia blanda var. floribunda
• Peperomia boivinii
• Peperomia bracteata
• Peperomia cereoides
• Peperomia clusiifolia
• Peperomia magnoliifolia
• Peperomia congesta
• Peperomia congona
• Peperomia cubensis
• Peperomia deppeana
• Peperomia dolabriformis
• Peperomia dolabriformis var. grandis
• Peperomia dolabriformis var. lombardii
• Peperomia eburnea
• Peperomia emarginella
• Peperomia fagerlindii
• Peperomia urocarpa
• Peperomia rotundifolia
• Peperomia rugosa
• Peperomia serpens
• Peperomia sincorana
• Peperomia strawii
• Peperomia tetragona
• Peperomia tetraphylla
• Peperomia trifolia
• Peperomia trinervis
• Peperomia trinervula
• Peperomia turboensis
• Peperomia resediflora
• Peperomia urvilleana
• Peperomia velutina
• Peperomia verschaffeltii
• Peperomia verticillata
• Peperomia vestita var. lindenii
• Peperomia villicaulis
• Peperomia wolfgang-krahnii
• Peperomia acuminata 'Variegata'
• Peperomia argyreia 'Costa Rica'
• Peperomia argyreia 'Variegata'
• Peperomia obtusifolia
• Peperomia maijeri
• Peperomia marmorata
• Peperomia maypurensis
• Peperomia meridana
• Peperomia metallica
• Peperomia microphylla
• Peperomia monticola
• Peperomia naviculaefolia
• Peperomia nitida
• Peperomia nivalis
• Peperomia andina
• Peperomia pecuniifolia
• Peperomia pellucida
• Peperomia perciliata
• Peperomia pereskiifolia
• Peperomia peruviana
• Peperomia polybotrya
• Peperomia polycephala
• Peperomia prostrata
• Peperomia pseudovariegata var. sarcophylla
• Peperomia quadrangularis

Trade Names: Peperomia scandens 'Crane's Flecked'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia nitida

Plant parent(s): Peperomia argyreia

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Harmony’s Great Pumpkin'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia rugosa

Common Names: Peperomia ‘Harmony’s Midnight Wave’

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Little Toscani'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: US20180077842P1

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Silver Heart'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia marmorata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Mendoza'

Inventor: Per Siggaard Christensen

Patent: USPP31735P2

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia meridana

Trade Names: Peperomia metallica 'Colombiana', Peperomia 'Colombiana', Peperomia metallica, Peperomia 'Galaxy'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia metallica

Trade Names: Peperomia metallica 'Ecuador', Peperomia metallica 'Narrow Form'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia metallica

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Napoli Nights'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: US20180077841P1

*: Described as a cross between a Peperomia marmorata cultivar and peruviana cultivar

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Wavy Gravy'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia griseo-argentea

Trade Names: Peperomia scandens 'Variegata', Peperomia scandens variegated

Trade Names: Peperomia limao, Peperomia 'Golden Cais'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Green Gold'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Trade Names: Peperomia obtusifolia 'Variegata', Peperomia obtusifolia 'USA'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Pixie'

*: likely the same plant as Peperomia orba

Plant parent(s): Peperomia orba

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Pixie Lime'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia orba

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Silver Ripple'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Burbella'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Lilian'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Red Luna'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Moonlight'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: USPP31418P2

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Pink Lady'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Pink Lady Variegata'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata 'Pink Lady'

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Quito'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia ‘Ripple Variegata’, Peperomia ‘Ripple Variegated’

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Shumi Red'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Pixie Variegata', Peperomia 'Pixie Variegated'

Inventor: Kees Schoenmakers

Patent: USPP18144P2

Plant parent(s): Peperomia orba

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Teresa'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Black Knight', Peperomia 'Red Margin', Peperomia 'Red Edge'

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia clusiifolia

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Jellie', Peperomia 'Jelly'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia clusiifolia

Plant parent(s): Peperomia clusiifolia

Plant parent(s): Peperomia cubensis

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Eden Rosso', Peperomia 'Rosso'

Inventor: Obed Smit

Patent: USPP24379P3

Plant parent(s): Peperomia marmorata, Peperomia metallica

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia × Red Rosso

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Frost', Peperomia 'Silver Frost'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia glabella

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Blackie'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia griseo-argentea

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia dolabriformis variegated

Plant parent(s): Peperomia dolabriformis

Named by: Guillermo Pino (2008)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1890)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Silver Bandit'

Synonyms: Peperomia lepadiphylla, Peperomia pruinosifolia

Named by: Guillermo Pino (2010)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: George Sydney Bunting (1966)

Trade Names: Peperomia viridis variegata

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: Belize, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles

Named by: Luis Sodiro (1900)

Native Area: Ecuador

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Common Names: Peperomia Emerald Ripple

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1958)

Native Area: Southeast Brazil

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia caperata 'Abricos', Peperomia caperata 'Amazonas', Peperomia caperata 'Black Ripple', Peperomia caperata 'Brasilia', Peperomia caperata 'Buenos Aires', Peperomia caperata 'Burbella', Peperomia caperata 'Caracas', Peperomia caperata 'Cayenne', Peperomia caperata ‘Harmony’s Midnight Wave’, Peperomia caperata 'Lilian', Peperomia caperata 'Luna Red', Peperomia caperata 'Mendoza', Peperomia caperata 'Montevideo', Peperomia caperata 'Moonlight', Peperomia caperata 'Pink Lady', Peperomia caperata 'Quito', Peperomia caperata ‘Ripple Variegata’, Peperomia caperata 'Shumi Red', Peperomia caperata 'Silver Ripple', Peperomia caperata 'Steve’s Leaves Chameleon', Peperomia caperata 'Teresa'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Trade Names: Peperomia caperata 'Royal Princess'

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Burning Bush'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia obtusifolia

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Chocolate Ripple'. Peperomia 'Chocolate'

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Burgundy', Peperomia 'Burgundy Ripple'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Mystique'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia albovittata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Ice Queen', Peperomia 'Silver'

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Aussie Gold'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia rugosa

Trade Names: Peperomia orba 'Variegata'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia orba

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: US20180077840P1

Plant parent(s): Peperomia albovittata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia polybotrya

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Rana Verde'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: USPP29418P3

Plant parent(s): Peperomia albovittata

Plant parent(s): Peperomia albovittata 'Rana Verde'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: USPP28822P2

Plant parent(s): Peperomia × Eden Rosso

Trade Names: Peperomia fraseri 'Variegata', Peperomia fraseri variegated

Plant parent(s): Peperomia resediflora

Inventor: Per Siggaard Christensen

Patent: USPP31460P2

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Equador', Peperomia 'Ecuador'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia rugosa

Trade Names: Peperomia 'San Marino'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: USPP29565P3

Inventor: Steve’s Leaves

Plant parent(s): Peperomia caperata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Sunrise'

Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit

Patent: USPP29417P3

Plant parent(s): Peperomia velutina

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Belly Button'

Plant parent(s): Peperomia verticillata

Synonyms: Peperomia pyrifolia, Peperomia cacuminicola, Peperomia basellifolia

Named by: Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavon (1798)

Native Area: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia acuminata 'Variegata'

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1898)

Native Area: Ecuador

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia albovittata 'Piccolo Banda', Peperomia albovittata 'Rana Verde'

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1961)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Heinrich Wawra (1862)

Native Area: Brazil

*: 'flexicaulis' means having bent, flexed stems

Named by: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1845)

Native Area: Galápagos

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: Mexico, South America

*: 'galioides' means having leaves resembling Galium

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1831)

Native Area: South America

*: 'glabella' means having glabrous (smooth) leaves

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia glabella 'Red Stem'

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Ruby Glow'

Named by: Werner Rauh and Wilhelm A. Barthlott (1975)

Native Area: Ecuador

*: 'graveolens' means having strong, unpleasent smell

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1958)

Native Area: Brazil

*: 'griseo-argetea' means silvery-gray

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia griseo-argentea 'Blackie', Peperomia griseo-argentea 'Wavy Gravy'

Named by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1845)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela

*: 'hartwegiana' means named after Karl Theodor Hartweg

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1869)

Native Area: Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá

*: 'hirta' means hairy

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich

Native Area: Central and South America

*: 'hispidula' means finely bristled

Common Names: Peperomia Isabella

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1866)

Native Area: Costa Rica

*: 'hoffmannii' is named after Ralph Hoffmann, botanist

Trade Names: Peperomia hunteriana, Peperomia enervis

Named by: Paul Irwin Forster (1991)

Native Area: Queensland

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Happy Bean'

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1956)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1899)

Native Area: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panamá

Named by: Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavon (1798)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Synonyms: Piper incanum

Named by: Adrian Hardy Haworth (1823)

Native Area: Northest and Southeast Brazil

*: 'incana' means hairy, hoary, grey or silver colored

Named by: Guillermo Pino (2011)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: William Trelease and Truman George Yuncker (1950)

Native Area: Colombia

*: 'longifolia' means long leaves

Named by: Tomitarô Makino (1901)

Native Area: Ryukyu Islands, Japan

*: 'japonica' means from Japan

Named by: Werner Rauh (2000)

Native Area: Bolivia

Named by: Guillermo Pino (2004)

Native Area: Peru

*: 'lanuginosa' means woolly, downy

Trade Names: Peperomia elongata

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1831)

Native Area: Mexico and South America

*: 'macrostachyos' from greek macros (large) and stachys (spike)

Trade Names: Peperomia maculosa, Peperomia ‘Xiang Cao’

Named by: William Jackson Hooker (1824)

Native Area: Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

*: 'maculosa' means spotted

Named by: Werner Rauh and Paul Clifford Hutchison (1973)

Native Area: Peru

*: ‘columella’ means columnar

Named by: William Trelease (1936)

Native Area: Ecuador, Peru

Synonyms: Peperomia arifolia var. argyreia, Peperomia sandersii

Trade Names: Peperomia argyreia, Peperomia 'Watermelon', Peperomia sandersii

Common Names: Watermelon Peperomia

Named by: Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (1867)

Native Area: Northeast and Southeast Brazil

*: ‘argyreia’ is from ‘argyro’ (silver in greek)

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia argyreia 'Costa Rica', Peperomia argyreia 'Harmony’s Gold Dust Woman', Peperomia argyreia 'Variegata'

Named by: Paul Clifford Hutchison and Werner Rauh (1975)

Native Area: Peru

*: ‘asperula’ means rough

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle

Native Area: Africa

Named by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1843)

Native Area: Juan Fernández Is.

*: ‘berteroana’ name from Carlo Giuseppe Bertero, Italian botanist

Named by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1988)

Named by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1988)

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1866)

Native Area: Comoros

*: ‘boivinii’ means named after Louis Hyacinthe Boivin, botanist

Trade Names: Peperomia campylotropa

Named by: Arthur William Hill (1907)

Native Area: Guatemala, Mexico

*: ‘bracteata’ means having bracts (leaves beneath the flower)

Named by: Guillermo Pino and Nelson Cieza (2003)

Native Area: Peru

*: ‘cereoides’ means resembler a candle or torch

Named by: William Jackson Hooker (1823)

Native Area: Jamaica

*: 'clusiifolia' means having leaves similar to Clusia

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia clusiifolia 'Black Knight', Peperomia clusiifolia 'Variegata'

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1831)

Native Area: Mexico, South America

*: 'magnoliifolia' means having leaves like Magnolia

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: Peru

*: 'congesta' means congested or crowded

Named by: Luis Sodiro (1900)

Native Area: Ecuador, Peru

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1866)

Native Area: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia cubensis 'Variegata'

Named by: Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal and Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso (1830)

Native Area: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru

*: 'deppeana' means it is named for Ferdinand Deppe, German botanist

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth

Native Area: Ecuador, Peru

*: 'dolabriformis' means having hatchet-shaped leaves

Named by: Guillermo Pino and Olivier Klopfenstein (2005)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Guillermo Pino (2008)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Jean Jules Linden (1871)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1869)

Native Area: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1956)

Native Area: Ecuador

Named by: Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer and Carl Anton von Meyer

Native Area: South America

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1815)

Native Area: South America

*: 'rotundifolia' means round leaf

Named by: Cornelis Christiaan Berg, Erik Albert Mennega and Jan Tolsma (1978)

Native Area: Ecuador

*: 'rugosa' means wrinkled

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia rugosa 'Aussie Gold', Peperomia rugosa 'Equador'

Trade Names: Peperomia rotundifolia, Peperomia serpens

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1866)

Native Area: Mexico and South America

*: 'serpens' if from latin word for snake, possibly referring to the creeping habit or distinctive markings on the flower

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1917)

Native Area: Northeast Brazil

Named by: Paul Clifford Hutchison, Guillermo Pino and Olivier Klopfenstein (2004)

Native Area: El Salvador, Peru

*: 'stawii' means named after Richard Myron Straw, botanist

Synonyms: Peperomia puteolata

Common Names: Parallel Peperomia

Named by: William Trelease (1936)

Native Area: Peru, Western South America, Southern America

*: 'tetragona' means four-angled

Named by: William Jackson Hooker (1832)

Native Area: Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand

*: 'tetraphylla' means four-leaved

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1831)

Native Area: Leeward Is., Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.

*: 'trifolia' means three leaves, each leaf divided into three parts

Named by: Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavon (1798)

Native Area: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

*: 'trinervis' means three-nerved

Trade Names: Peperomia trinervula ‘Amigo Marcelo’, Peperomia ‘Amigo Marcelo’

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1869)

Native Area: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela

Trade Names: Peperomia turboensis, Peperomia buntingii

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1950)

Native Area: Colombia, Venezuela

Synonyms: Peperomia fraseri var. resediflora

Trade Names: Peperomia resediflora, Peperomia fraseri

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1866)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia resediflora 'Variegata'

Named by: Achille Richard

Native Area: Fiji, Kermadec Is., New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Is., Samoa, Solomon Is., Vanuatu

*: 'urvilleana' means named after JSC Dumont d'Urville, botanist

Named by: Ignatz Urban (1899)

Native Area: Colombia and Ecuador

*: 'velutina' means velvety

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia velutina 'Bicolor'

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Mini Watermelon'

Named by: Charles Lemaire (1869)

Native Area: Peru

*: 'verschaffeltii' means named after Ambroise Alexandre Verschaffelt, botanical artist

Synonyms: Peperomia rubella

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich

Native Area: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica

*: 'verticillata' means whorl (arrangement of leaves, sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem or stalk)

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia verticillata 'Belly Button'

Trade Names: Peperomia liadensis, Peperomia 'Velvetree'

Named by: Werner Rauh (2000)

Native Area: Bolivia

*: 'vestita' means clothed, dressed, 'lindenii' means named after Jean-Jules Linden

Trade Names: Peperomia villacaulus

Named by: Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1908)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Werner Rauh (1986)

Native Area: Peru

Trade Names: Peperomia acuminata 'Variegata', Peperomia acuminata variegated

Plant parent(s): Peperomia acuminata

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Costa Rica'

Inventor: Per Christensen

Patent: USPP32128P2

Plant parent(s): Peperomia argyreia

Trade Names: Peperomia argyreia variegata, Peperomia argyreia variegated

Plant parent(s): Peperomia argyreia

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich

Native Area: Mexico, South America

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia obtusifolia 'Golden Cais', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Golden Gate', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Green Gold', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Lime Green', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Marble', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Red Canyon', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Red Edge', Peperomia obtusifolia 'Variegata'

Named by: Guillermo Pino and Marie-Stéphanie Samain (2012)

Native Area: Peru

Named by: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1866)

Native Area: Brazil Southeast

*: 'marmorata' means marbled

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia × Eden Rosso, Peperomia marmorata 'Silver Heart'

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: North Brazil, Peru, Venezuela

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1961)

Native Area: Venezuela

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia meridana 'Variegata'

Named by: Lucien Linden and Émile Rodigas (1892)

*: 'metallica' means metalic

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia metallica 'Colombiana', Peperomia metallica 'Narrow Form', Peperomia × Eden Rosso

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

*: 'microphylla' means small leaf

Named by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel

Native Area: Mexico

*: 'monticola' means Mountain dweller

Named by: William Trelease

Native Area: Peru

Trade Names: Peperomia serpens

Named by: Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt (1900)

Native Area: Argentina, Brazil

*: 'nitida' means shinny, glossy

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia nitida 'Crane's Flecked', Peperomia nitida 'Variegata'

Named by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1843)

Native Area: Peru

*: 'nivalis' means growing in or near snow, or referring to the white color

Named by: Guillermo Pino (2004)

Native Area: Peru

*: ‘andina’ means of or from the Andes

Trade Names: Peperomia 'Hope'

Named by: William Trelease, Paul Carpenter Standley

Native Area: Guatemala, Mexico

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: South America, Africa

*: 'pellucida' means transparent

Named by: Truman George Yuncker (1950)

Native Area: Colombia

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth, Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1816)

Native Area: Belize, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Named by: Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt (1900)

Native Area: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

*: 'peruviana' means from Peru

Common Names: Raindrop Peperomia

Named by: Karl Sigismund Kunth (1816)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

*: 'polybotrya' from the Greek polys (many) and botrys (bunch), referring to the clusters of sporangia on the fronds

Cultivars and Hybrids: Peperomia polybotrya 'Variegata'

Named by: William Trelease (1936)

Native Area: Peru

*: 'polycephala' means many-headed

Named by: Williams (1879)

Native Area: Ecuador

*: 'prostrata' means growing along the ground

Synonyms: Peperomia sarcophylla

Trade Names: Peperomia sarcophylla

Named by: William Trelease and Truman George Yuncker (1950)

Native Area: Colombia, Ecuador

*: 'sarcophylla' means flesh leaf

Synonyms: Peperomia angulata

Trade Names: Peperomia quadrangularis, Peperomia angulata, Peperomia ‘Beetle’, Peperomia ‘Diamond’ and Peperomia ‘Rocca Verde’

Named by: Albert Gottfried Dietrich

Native Area: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela

*: 'quadrangularis' means four-angled