Pilea peperomioides Diels
Chinese money plant
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Summary
Pilea peperomioides, the Chinese money plant, UFO plant, pancake plant, lefse plant or missionary plant, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in southern China.
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About the genus · Pilea
Pilea, with 600–715 species, is the largest genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae.
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At a glance
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Pilea, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.
Warmth and air Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).
The archetype table’s figure; no habitat figure for this species.
Cold floor: 12 °C, the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by the genus Pilea, which is reliably one kind of plant); no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The archetype table's conventional minimum for the group; no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Cristina, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Pilea peperomioides, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Pilea 3 in the reference
Pilea cadierei Aluminium Plant
Pilea microphylla Artillery plant, Gunpowder plant
Pilea nummulariifolia Creeping Charlie History & registers
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