| Scientific Name: | Peperomia tetragona |
| Common Name: | parallel peperomia, radiator plant |
| Family Name: | Piperaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Epiphytic, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Whorled, Leathery, Succulent, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spike, Green-yellow, Green |
| Fruit: | |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 4-sided; leaves mostly whorled 3-4 per node, ovate to obovate, 6-10cm long x 3-5cm wide, semi-succulent, prominent lighter coloured palmate venation. | |