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Ornamental - Popular garden plant due to its low-maintenance nature and attractive foliage.
Argentina, Brazil
Thrives in the wet tropical biome .
It is trailing groundcover plant.
Stem is succulent, typically around 30-100 cm long.
Leaves are glossy forest-green to parrot-green with parallel veins, oblong to ovate shape with pointed tips, 2.5-6.4 cm long, 2.5-2.8 cm wide. Sometimes the leaves have thin, darker green lines or a bit of purple on the bottom. They might even be a little bumpy. The leaves grow one at a time on the stem, coming out of hairy/soft pouches that wrap around the stem.
Flowers are small, white, three-petaled. Appear in clusters at the stem tips.
Fruit is three-parted capsule containing pitted black seeds.