PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Baldos, Orville C AU - Corpuz, Aleta K TI - Propagation of arid land peperomia (<em>Peperomia blanda</em> var. <em>floribunda</em>) via leaf cuttings AID - 10.3368/npj.20.1.25 DP - 2019 Mar 20 TA - Native Plants Journal PG - 25--30 VI - 20 IP - 1 4099 - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/20/1/25.short 4100 - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/20/1/25.full SO - NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL2019 Mar 20; 20 AB - Arid land peperomia (Peperomia blanda (Jacq.) Kunth var. floribunda (Miq.) H. Huber [Piperaceae]) was vegetatively propagated using leaf cuttings treated with or without 1000 ppm indole-3-butyric acid. Results after 1 mo indicated no significant benefit of rooting hormone treatment. High mean percent rooting (&gt; 80%) was observed in both treatments, with each leaf cutting having a mean of 2 shoot initials and mean longest root length of 2.2 cm (0.87 in). Whole leaf cuttings provide a feasible vegetative propagation material for arid land peperomia. Plantlets can be generated from cuttings in approximately 118 d.