Pilea peperomioides

Chinese Money Plant
Pilea peperomioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Urticaceae
Genus:	Pilea
Species:	P. peperomioides Diels, 1912
Binomial name
Pilea peperomioides

Pilea peperomioides, known as Chinese Money Plant, Lefse Plant, or Missionary Plant is a plant native to Yunnan Province in southern China. Parasol-Pilea is characterized by having round, dark green, peltate leaves up to 10 cm in diameter on a long petiole.

Pilea peperomioides was first collected by George Forrest in 1906, and again in 1910, in the Cang Shan mountain range west of Dali in Yunnan Province.

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

References

• A Chinese Puzzle