Piper Betel Plant In A Container, Potted With Soil In 3″ Pot

Piper Betel live plant in a container, potted plant. You will receive one live plant in a container with soil. Container size 3″ tall.

NOTE: For the live plants orders we ship on Monday – Wed only to prevent the live plants from sitting over the weekend before delivery.

Shipping notes: Because your plant has been in a box without sunlight for a few days in shipping, it might decide to yellow and drop few leaves when it first arrives. This is normal. (If it loses all leaves, this is not normal, and you should contact us.) Adjust your plant to the light very slow, don’t put it on bright sun right away, wait for about 5 days.

Family: Piperaceae.

Common Name: Root beer plant, hoja santa plant, Mexican Pepperleaf, Veracruz Pepper, sacred leaf, yerba santa, acuyo.Origin: Mexico through Colombia

Cordate leaves. Stems range from black to light green depending on the cultivar. A number of cultivars have been selected on different islands across the Pacific. They do not produce seeds. Propagated by stem cuttings.

The piper shrub thrives in loose, well-drained soils where plenty of air reaches the roots. It grows naturally where rainfall is plentiful (over 2,000 mm/yr). Ideal growing conditions are 70–95 °F (21–35 °C) and 70–100% relative humidity. Too much sunlight is harmful, especially in early growth, so piper is an understory crop. Can be used as house/patio plant in partial sunlight. The growth is upright with broad, deep green leaves. For best results, grow in partial sun.

SORRY, NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ON LIVE PLANTS.

 

********* Cold Weather Shipping **********

If the temperature in your region is below freezing, please don’t order live plants and wait for better weather. When the winter begins we start using USPS Priority Mail for all standard shipping because the priority mail travels mostly by air and the post office never leaves its packages in trucks outside overnight. Between careful monitoring of the weather and the priority mail service we have had very good success. However, sometime packages do freeze… please contact us immediately if you have a problem. When the day-time temperature falls close to freezing in your state we can no longer ship safely using priority mail.