Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Where it actually grows measured, from 35 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 15.1 °C | 18.3 °C | 20.5 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 24.1 °C | 27.5 °C | 30.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,331 mm | 2,594 mm | 4,185 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 146 mm | 319 mm | 514 mm |
It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 35 research-grade observations of Peperomia distachyos that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 13 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Peperomia antennifera Trel.
- Peperomia bakeri C.DC.
- Peperomia calvicaulis var. perexigua Trel.
- Peperomia distachyos var. distachyoides Dahlst.
- Peperomia distachyos var. pubescens C.DC.
- Peperomia distachyos var. subrhombica Sodiro
- Peperomia elegans C.DC.
- Peperomia llewelynii Trel. & Yunck.
- Peperomia podocarpa C.DC.
- Peperomia producta Griseb.
- Peperomia rupestris Miq.
- Peperomia scutellata C.DC.
- Piper distachyon L.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.