Scientific Name: Pilea cadierei
Common Name: aluminum plant
Family Name: Urticaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Succulent, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Rugose, Oblanceolate, Crenate
Flowers: Cyme, White, Can flower any month
Fruit: Achene, Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves elliptic to obovate, toothed, dark green with four rows of upraised silver patches on either side of the main veins, up to 7cm long.