Scientific Name: Peperomia argyreia
Common Name: watermelon peperomia
Family Name: Piperaceae
Origin: South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Arching
Form: Vase
Texture: Very coarse
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure: Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Succulent, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Spike, Green-yellow, Apr-May-Jun
Fruit: Drupe
Key ID Features:
Leaves silver-gray with dark green herring bone pattern along veins, blades broadly ovate to 7cm long, petioles dark red up to 12cm long.