Peperomia Tetragona (Parallel Peperomia) was once called Peperomia Putoelata, belongs to the Piperaceae family according to earth.com. It is famous for being a perennial plant that will thrive in your garden for years.
There are thousands of sub-species of this family that is grown in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Peperomia Tetragona will be very suitable for an apartment if you don’t want your houseplant to take up space.
Care
Peperomia Tetragona is not very picky when it comes to its care. Peperomia Tetragona prefers indirect sunlight spots where moderate humidity (greater than 60%) is available. It loves to be watered deeply, so use a peat-based mixture that is well-drained. Keep the temperature maintained from 65 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit (18 to 24 degrees Celsius) as a drastic change in temperature would affect the growth.
Peperomia Tetragona originally lies in South America; they can be grown as an indoor plant or outdoor garden plant. Tetragona likes living in greenhouses, windowsills, conservatories, but it’s also known to flourish in a terrarium.
Peperomia Tetragona tends to grow in the upwards direction and grow in trailing order where they hang onto the roots of other plants or the rocks present on the ground.
Propagation
Peperomia tetragona propagation is really easy, you can water prop them by taking a stem cutting with a couple of nodes and a few leaves. Remove leaves from the lower node and then put the cutting in a jar of water to root. The leaves should be out of the water with at least one naked node with no leaves below the surface of the water. Keep the water topped up (only change it if it gets cloudy) and keep in indirect sunlight and it should root in a month. Then you can pot it up into soil and treat it as a juvenile plant.