Pilea peperomioides
Chinese money plant, Missionary Plant
Description
Evergreen perennial plant whose ornamental value is conferred by its leaves bearing long, fleshy, rounded and regular petioles of a deep green colour and a diameter of up to 10/15 cm.
It is used as an indoor plant by ensuring it is exposed to light but sheltered from direct sunlight during the hottest hours. It can flower after one or more years.
It also withstands low temperatures (5/6 °C) well but in this case watering should be reduced or stopped.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Urticaceae
- Genus
- Pilea
- Species
- Pilea peperomioides
