Botanical name

Peperomia retusa var. retusa

Family

Piperaceae
Peperomia retusa var. retusa
Peperomia retusa var. retusa
Peperomia retusa var. retusa
Peperomia retusa var. retusa
Peperomia retusa var. retusa
Peperomia retusa var. retusa

Description

Soft creeping perennial, rooting at nodes and forming a carpet of glossy simple leaves without stipules. Flowers in thread-like fleshy spikes, pale green in colour; stamens 2, stigmas tufted.

Greek: peperi = pepper; resembling the pepper plant.

Habitat

Forest floors and humus on sheltered rocks

Flower Date

January to March