Chinese money plant
Pilea peperomioides Diels
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 25 cm
- wide
- 25 cm
Urticaceae
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (SW. Sichuan, W. Yunnan)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 20 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Russian
- Пилея пеперомиевидная
- Swedish
- elefantöra, parasollpilea
- Chinese (China)
- 镜面草, 一点金
- French
- Plante du missionnaire, Plante à monnaie chinoise
- Dutch
- Pannenkoekplant
- Turkish
- Çin Para Çiçeği
- Finnish
- kilpipiilea
- Slovak
- pilea pieprovcovitá
- Chinese
- 鏡面草, 镜面草
- Simplified Chinese
- 镜面草, 翠屏草
- German
- Chinesischer Geldbaum, Ufopflanze
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Pilea peperomioides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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