Complete Plant Guide

Easy 💧 12 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Peperomia clusiifolia, commonly known as Red-Edge Peperomia or Ginny Peperomia, is a tropical succulent-like houseplant from the family Piperaceae. Native to the tropical rainforests of Central America and the West Indies, it features thick, fleshy leaves with a striking tricolor pattern: deep green centers, cream margins, and vivid pink-to-red leaf edges. This compact, slow-growing plant is beloved for its ornamental foliage, easy care requirements, and complete non-toxicity to pets and humans.

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Prayer pepper

Peperomia dolabriformis

Peperomia dolabriformis, called prayer pepper, is a shrubby succulent in the Piperaceae family, native to Peru. Its thick, fleshy leaves fold upward like hands in prayer, with a translucent window along the upper edge that aids photosynthesis. It is compact, slow growing and excellent as a houseplant.

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Miniature Peperomia

Peperomia emarginella

Easy 💧 10 days ☀️ Low light

Peperomia emarginella is a tiny, charming species native to tropical America. Its small, rounded leaves grow on delicate stems, making it a perfect candidate for terrariums, mini pots, and desktop gardens. It thrives with minimal care and is non-toxic to pets.

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Happy Bean

Peperomia ferreyrae

Peperomia ferreyrae, known as the Happy Bean or Pincushion Peperomia, is a compact succulent-like plant native to the tropical forests of Peru. Its slender, bean-shaped leaves grow densely along upright stems, each leaf featuring a translucent window that helps the plant capture light in its shaded native habitat. This slow-growing, low-maintenance species is prized by houseplant collectors for its unusual sculptural form.

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Cypress Peperomia

Peperomia glabella

Cypress Peperomia is a trailing, semi-succulent epiphyte native to South Florida and tropical America, where it grows on trees and rocks in humid hammocks and cloud forests. It has glossy, oval, dark green leaves on reddish stems that cascade gracefully, making it a popular low-maintenance houseplant for hanging baskets.

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Ruby glow peperomia

Peperomia graveolens

Peperomia graveolens is a succulent peperomia in the family Piperaceae, found in the wild only in Ecuador, where it is listed as vulnerable. It forms a low clump 20 to 30 cm tall with short reddish stems. The thick leaves are 2 to 3 cm long and folded like a canoe: light green on top with a translucent stripe down the middle, and wine red underneath. The more light it gets, the deeper the red. Flowers come on thin yellowish spikes and, unlike most peperomias, smell bad. It grows slowly and is kept for its foliage.

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Ivy Peperomia

Peperomia griseoargentea

Peperomia griseoargentea, known as ivy peperomia, is a compact evergreen perennial from Brazil grown for its heart-shaped, silvery-gray leaves marked with deep, corrugated veining. It forms neat rosettes on reddish, wiry stems and rarely exceeds 25-30 cm in height, making it a popular choice for desks, shelves, and terrariums.

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Peperomia Hope

Peperomia hope

Peperomia 'Hope' is a compact trailing hybrid peperomia prized for its cascading stems of small, round, succulent-like jade-green leaves. Believed to be a cross between Peperomia rotundifolia (or quadrifolia) and Peperomia deppeana, it forms dense mounds that spill attractively over the edges of hanging baskets and shelves. Tiny green rat-tail flower spikes may appear when light is adequate.

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Spoon-leaf Peperomia

Peperomia magnoliifolia

Peperomia magnoliifolia, commonly known as Spoon-leaf Peperomia or Desert Privet, is a tropical plant native to the Caribbean and tropical regions of Central and South America. It belongs to the Piperaceae family and is prized for its thick, glossy, spoon-shaped leaves in a rich deep green. A compact, low-maintenance houseplant, it thrives indoors and is popular as an ornamental species.

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Silver Heart Peperomia

Peperomia marmorata

Peperomia marmorata is a compact, semi-succulent houseplant native to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, prized for its heart-shaped leaves marked with striking silver stripes between deeply indented veins. Its small rosette-forming habit makes it perfect for small pots and indoor spaces.

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Metallic Peperomia

Peperomia metallica

Peperomia metallica is a compact, semi-succulent tropical foliage plant from the forests of Peru, prized for its small, cupped leaves that shimmer with a coppery, metallic sheen, a bright silver midrib and wine-red undersides. It stays neat and low, rarely exceeding 25 cm, and occasionally throws slender reddish flower spikes in summer.

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Cupid Peperomia

Peperomia nitida

Cupid Peperomia (Peperomia nitida) is a trailing, vining houseplant in the Piperaceae family, native to the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. It features small, heart-shaped, variegated leaves with creamy-white edges and a deep green center. Extremely easy to grow, it thrives in hanging baskets and is non-toxic to pets and people.

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Baby Rubber Plant

Peperomia obtusifolia

Tropical evergreen perennial native to Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean. Notable for its glossy, fleshy, rounded dark green leaves. A compact, bushy plant ideal for indoors due to its low maintenance and resilience. Can reach up to 60 cm in height and produces cream-colored flower spikes during spring and summer.

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Pixie Lime Peperomia

Peperomia orba

Peperomia orba, commonly known as Pixie Lime Peperomia or Teardrop Peperomia, is a compact and charming houseplant from the Piperaceae family, native to tropical Americas. Its rounded, succulent-like lime-green leaves form dense rosettes, making it a perfect tabletop or shelf plant. It is one of the easiest peperomias to grow, tolerating some neglect and adapting well to indoor environments.

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Coin-Leaf Peperomia

Peperomia pecuniifolia

Peperomia pecuniifolia is a small epiphytic plant in the pepper family (Piperaceae), native to the humid tropical forests of Guatemala and southeastern Mexico. Its species name, derived from Latin 'pecunia' (money) and 'folia' (leaves), refers to the small, round, succulent leaves that resemble coins strung along creeping stems. It is a compact, medium-growing plant popular in terrariums and hanging pots for its trailing or creeping habit. Like many Peperomia species, it stores water in its fleshy leaves, making it fairly forgiving of occasional missed waterings.

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Raindrop Peperomia

Peperomia polybotrya

Easy 💧 8 days ☀️ Partial shade

Peperomia polybotrya, commonly known as the Raindrop Peperomia or Coin Leaf Peperomia, is a compact succulent-like houseplant from the Piperaceae family, native to the tropical regions of South America (Colombia and Peru). It is prized for its glossy, teardrop-shaped leaves that resemble large raindrops or coins. One of the easiest houseplants to grow, it thrives in indirect light, tolerates drought, and is completely non-toxic to pets and humans.

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String of Turtles

Peperomia prostrata

String of Turtles is a slow-growing South American trailing succulent prized for its small, round, fleshy leaves marked with turtle-shell-like patterns. Its thin, wiry stems cascade gracefully, making it a favorite for hanging baskets, terrariums and tabletop displays.

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Parallel Peperomia

Peperomia puteolata

Easy 💧 12 days ☀️ Partial shade

Parallel Peperomia (Peperomia puteolata) is a trailing, semi-succulent houseplant native to the forest floors of Colombia and other parts of South America. Its slender reddish stems carry small, elliptical, deep olive-green leaves marked with bright yellow parallel veins, giving the plant its common name. It grows upright at first before cascading over the edge of its pot, making it a popular choice for hanging baskets and shelves.

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Beetle Peperomia

Peperomia quadrangularis

Peperomia quadrangularis, commonly known as Beetle Peperomia, is a small trailing succulent-like plant from Central and South America. Its square, four-angled stems bear attractive dark-green leaves with light green stripes.

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Trailing Jade

Peperomia rotundifolia

Peperomia rotundifolia, commonly known as Trailing Jade or Round-leaf Peperomia, is a compact trailing houseplant native to the tropical Americas, including Brazil and the Caribbean. Its small, round, succulent-like leaves grow on slender trailing stems, making it ideal for hanging baskets and high shelves. It is one of the easiest houseplants to maintain, thriving in typical indoor conditions.

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Itsy bitsy peperomia

Peperomia rubella

Tiny trailing peperomia native to Jamaica, with small dark green leaves that are reddish underneath and reddish stems that cascade over pot edges.

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Cupid Peperomia

Peperomia scandens

Peperomia scandens, commonly known as Cupid Peperomia or False Philodendron, is a trailing and climbing tropical plant native to the tropical Americas. Its heart-shaped, fleshy, light-green leaves resemble those of philodendrons, earning it its misleading common name. An excellent choice for hanging baskets, shelves, and trailing displays, it creates cascading curtains of foliage that bring a lush, tropical feel to any indoor space.

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Vining Peperomia

Peperomia serpens

Peperomia serpens, commonly known as Vining Peperomia or Cupid Peperomia, is a trailing tropical plant native to the tropical regions of Central and South America. It features small, glossy, heart-shaped leaves on slender trailing stems, making it ideal for hanging baskets and shelves. It belongs to the Piperaceae family and is among the most beginner-friendly houseplants.

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Acorn peperomia

Peperomia tetraphylla

Peperomia tetraphylla is a small semi-succulent member of the family Piperaceae with a creeping, trailing habit and slender stems bearing tiny, rounded, slightly fleshy leaves, often arranged in whorls of four. In the wild it grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte on moss, rocks, and tree trunks across tropical and subtropical regions. Grown as a houseplant, it is prized for its compact foliage and stems that spill gracefully from hanging baskets and shelves.

Medium 💧 8 days ☀️ Partial shade

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Peperomia trinervula

Peperomia trinervula is a small evergreen peperomia that grows wild as an epiphyte or on rocks in humid montane forest from Panama and Venezuela down the Andes through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, often above 1,800 m. Its small, fleshy, oval leaves have three visible veins, which gives the species its name. The stems creep along the ground and form a dense mat, often tinged pink, so it is popular as a groundcover in terrariums and vivariums. It stays under about 20 cm tall and, like other peperomias, is non-toxic to people, cats and dogs.

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Ora-pro-nobis

Pereskia aculeata

Easy 💧 14 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Pereskia aculeata, popularly known as Ora-pro-nobis, is a unique climbing cactus that features true, succulent leaves. Native to Brazil, it is renowned as a superfood, containing high levels of protein, iron, and fiber. Its flowers are white and fragrant, attracting pollinators, and its branches have thorns that make it excellent for living fences.

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Rose Cactus

Pereskia grandifolia

Medium 💧 3 days ☀️ Partial shade

Pereskia grandifolia, known as the rose cactus, is a tree-like cactus native to eastern and southern Brazil. Unlike typical cacti, it has broad, non-succulent leaves and a spiny woody stem. It grows 3-6 m tall and produces showy bright pink flowers from spring through summer. It is widely grown as an edible leaf vegetable and as an ornamental hedge.

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Florist's Cineraria

Pericallis × hybrida

Florist's Cineraria (Pericallis × hybrida) is a popular cool-season annual celebrated for its spectacular daisy-like flowers in vivid shades of blue, purple, pink, red, and white, often with striking bicolor patterns. Native to the Canary Islands, it is widely grown as a potted plant and bedding annual during winter and early spring. It belongs to the Asteraceae family and is a hybrid of several Pericallis species, formerly classified as Senecio cruentus or Cineraria.

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Shiso

Perilla frutescens

Easy 💧 9 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Shiso (Perilla frutescens) is an annual aromatic herb from the Lamiaceae family, native to Asia. The plant reaches a height of 18-48 inches (45-120 cm) and features decorative, soft leaves that are green or purple depending on the variety. The leaves have a characteristic aroma reminiscent of a combination of mint, anise, and lemon. During summer and fall, the plant produces white to light purple flowers in spiked inflorescences. It propagates easily by seed and often self-seeds.

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Small-tongue rock daisy

Perityle microglossa

Perityle microglossa is an annual herb of the Asteraceae family, erect or decumbent, 15 to 60 cm tall, with fine and aromatic foliage. It is native to arid and rocky areas of northern and central Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa, Baja California Sur, Bajío) and the southwestern United States, where it grows wild in rock crevices, stony slopes, and poor soils in full sun. It produces small flower heads with short white ray florets and yellow disc florets, blooming mainly in spring and summer. In several regions, it is considered a weed due to its ability to colonize disturbed soils.

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Russian Sage

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Easy 💧 10 days ☀️ Direct sun

Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia), sometimes botanically classified as Salvia yangii, is a perennial subshrub in the Lamiaceae family, native to Central Asia, Afghanistan, and western China. It is characterized by silvery-gray, deeply lobed leaves with an intense, sage-like scent and numerous small flowers in shades of purple and blue that appear from July to September on upright, woody stems. Reaching 80-150 cm in height, the plant is extremely drought and heat tolerant, and its airy, misty habit makes it a perfect addition to flower beds and gravel gardens.

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Avocado Tree

Persea

Medium 💧 7 days ☀️ Direct sun

Persea is a genus of approximately 200 evergreen trees in the family Lauraceae, native to tropical and subtropical Americas, eastern Asia, and Macaronesia. The most famous species is the avocado (P. americana), cultivated worldwide for its nutritious fruit. The genus also includes the redbay (P. borbonia) of the southeastern United States and other ornamental species prized for their glossy, aromatic foliage.

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Avocado

Persea americana

Medium 💧 7 days ☀️ Direct sun

Persea americana, commonly known as the avocado, is an evergreen fruit tree native to south-central Mexico and Central America, belonging to the family Lauraceae. It is one of the most economically important and widely cultivated fruit trees in the world, celebrated for its creamy, nutrient-dense fruit rich in healthy monounsaturated fats, vitamins, and minerals. The tree can reach up to 18 meters in height in its natural habitat, bearing large, glossy, dark green leaves.

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Lingue

Persea lingue

Medium 💧 7 days ☀️ Partial shade

Lingue (Persea lingue) is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae), the same genus as avocado, endemic to the forests of central-southern Chile from Valparaíso to Chiloé. In the wild it reaches 15–30 m, with a straight trunk, brown-grey bark and a dense, rounded crown. The leaves are simple, leathery and glossy, 6–12 cm long, flushing bronze when new. The small (5–7 mm) yellow to yellowish-green, downy flowers come in branched panicles, followed by 1.2–1.8 cm berries that ripen from green to black-violet and are spread by pigeons and other birds. It grows in deep, moist soils near streams and on shaded slopes up to about 900 m. Its timber was heavily logged, and its tannin-rich bark fed the Valdivia leather industry. It is rarely grown outside Chile.