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''Pilea peperomioides'', known as Chinese money plant, pancake plant, lefse plant, or missionary plant, is a species of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae, native to Yunnan Province in southern China. Growing to tall and wide, it is an erect, succulent, evergreen perennial, with round, dark green, peltate leaves up to in diameter on a long petiole. ''P. peperomioides'' was first collected by George Forrest in 1906, and again in 1910, in the Cangshan mountain range 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. ''P. peperomioides'' is an example of a plant which has been spread amongst amateur gardeners via cuttings, without being well-known to botanists. Its true identity was not finally established until the 1980s. The first known published image appeared in the ''Kew magazine'' in 1984.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wildchicken.com/nature/garden/ga008_a_chinese_puzzle.htm )〕 With a minimum temperature of , in temperate regions ''P. peperomioides'' is cultivated as a houseplant. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=3835 )〕 == See Also == * ''Lunaria annua'', also known colloquially as the Chinese money plant in the United States, for its large, flat, silvery seedpods. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilea peperomioides」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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