Marcgravia sp Peru amazing terrarium plants!

You will receive a rooted cutting with at least 15 leaves. these plants should be rooted in moist long fiber sphagnum moss, please see in our substrates section to also buy sphagnum moss for your cutting.

Marcgravia sp. 'Peru' is one of the smaller leaved species of Marcgravias. The leaves tend to stay small at under a quarter inch. The spacing of the leaves is what really makes this species stand out. The leaves almost appear to overlap one another. When grown up a piece of driftwood or the background, this species really looks amazing!

As with all of the other Marcgravias this is considered to be a shingling type of plant. Shingling plants are vines that are prone to climb up towards the light. The leaves, many times, almost appear to form themselves to the surface that they are growing on. This is true whether it is your background or a piece of driftwood. Also, it should be noted that no Marcgravias seem to like water sitting on their leaves for long periods of time.

Marcgravias are found throughout Central and South America, as well as in the Caribbean. In their natural habitat, they are typically found growing up tree trunks in the rainforest. Before flowering, Marcgravias send out lateral branches with mature foliage (mature foliage differs from the typical foliage customers will see in their terrarium and in the pictures provided). It is these lateral branches that the plant will then bloom from.