Pilea peperomioides, known as Chinese Money Plant, Lefse Plant, or Missionary Plant is a plant native to the Yunnan province in the south of China. Parasolpilea is characterised by having very round, dark green leafs with a 10cm diameter mounted in the middle on a longstem.
Peperomioides was first collected by George Forrest in 1906, and in 1910, in the mountain range Cang Shan west of Dali in the Yunnan province.
In 1945 the species was rediscovered by Norwegian missionary Agnar Espegren in the Yunnan province when he was fleeing from the Hunan province. Espegren took some cuttings with him back to Norway, by India in 1946, and from there it spread throughout Scandinavia.
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