In a not so unsurprising move, the National Garden Bureau (NGB) has added a new category, houseplants, to its “Year of the” series and has honored peperomia as its first selection. Founded in 1920, ...

If you’re looking to add a new member to your indoor plant lineup, may we make a suggestion? You should make some room for our current obsession, the string of turtles plant. The indoor plant craze is ...

From a distance, a peperomia could be mistaken for a strange green fungus sprouting from rotting wood. A curious naturalist would rule out the organism’s relation to mushrooms upon observation of ...

Two new species of Peperomia from Brazil are described and illustrated based on morphological traits: Peperomia diamantinensis from the state of Bahia and Peperomia cruzeirensis from the state of Acre ...

The archesporium of the species of Peperomia studied arises as a single hypodermal cell, which cuts off a single parietal cell and then forms the embryo sac directly. The first division of the embryo ...