Peperomia serpens
Peperomia serpens | |
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Climbing a tree in the wild in Ecuador | |
Peperomia serpens 'Variegata' | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Piperales |
Family: | Piperaceae |
Genus: | Peperomia |
Species: | P. serpens
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Binomial name | |
Peperomia serpens | |
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Peperomia serpens, the vining peperomia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae, native to the New World Tropics.[1][2] As its synonym Peperomia scandens it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as a houseplant.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Peperomia serpens (Sw.) G.Don". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Peperomia serpens". North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox. N.C. Cooperative Extension. 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Peperomia scandens Cupid peperomia". The Royal Horticultural Society. 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
Categories:
- Peperomia
- House plants
- Flora of Southeastern Mexico
- Flora of Southwestern Mexico
- Flora of Veracruz
- Flora of Honduras
- Flora of Nicaragua
- Flora of Panama
- Flora of the Dominican Republic
- Flora of Haiti
- Flora of Jamaica
- Flora of the Leeward Islands
- Flora of Puerto Rico
- Flora of Trinidad and Tobago
- Flora of the Venezuelan Antilles
- Flora of the Windward Islands
- Flora of northern South America
- Flora of western South America
- Flora of Brazil
- Plants described in 1830
- Piperales stubs