Friday, October 17, 2008

Pilea peperomioides

Pilea peperomioides, known as Chinese Money Plant, or Missionary Plant is a plant native to the Yunnan province in the south of China. Parasolpilea is characterised by having very round, dark green leafs with a 10cm diameter mounted in the middle on a long .

Peperomioides was first collected by in 1906, and in 1910, in the mountain range west of in the Yunnan province.

In 1945 the species was rediscovered by missionary Agnar Espegren in the Yunnan province when he was fleeing from the Hunan province. Espegren took some with him back to Norway, by India in 1946, and from there it spread throughout Scandinavia.

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