Pepper elder
വെറ്റിലപ്പച്ചদীপ্ত লুচি পাতা
Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Piperaceae
Also called Clearweed, Shining bush plant, Man to man
Formerly Micropiper pellucidum, Piper pellucidum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or lithophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. America, Trop. Africa, MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 15 cm to 46 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- corrimiento, Peletaria, Coclaria
- root
- pa tsuxk juaxy, zèb akouwès, rtertiil
- Chinese
- 草胡椒
- Portuguese
- erva-de-jabuti, alfavaquinha-de-cobra
- Vietnamese
- Rau càng cua
- Japanese
- ウスバスナゴショウ, イシガキコショウ
- Indonesian
- Suruhan
- Swedish
- ogräspeperomia
- Thai
- กระสัง
- Chinese (China)
- 草胡椒
- Filipino
- Pansit-pansitan
- French
- Herbe couresse
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Peperomia pellucida (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.