Episode 242: a look at Pilea - beyond the Chinese money plant

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

There is more to the genus Pilea than the Chinese money plant (Pilea peperomioides): I discuss some of my favourite species, including the artillery plant and the aluminium plant.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to on the ledge house plant.
0:20.3	No, that's not what it's called. Oh, I've had a week off and it's all gone to pieces.
0:29.3	Let's try that again. Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. The podcast that's simply a show about houseplants.
0:38.4	And in this week's episode, I'm talking about Pilea.
0:46.5	Join me in a round of applause for Kara and Megan, who've both become Ledge End this week,
0:53.3	joining the clan of Patreon supporters.
0:56.0	Thank you very much to you too.
0:58.5	And if you want to find out about becoming a Patreon supporter of this here show,
1:03.2	check out the show notes at janeperone.com.
1:07.3	My newsletter, The Plant Ledger, is out this lunchtime. It's gone. It's out there, but you can still read it
1:15.2	online if you go to janeperone.com forward slash ledger. All 17 editions of the newsletter are available
1:22.6	online to read if for some reason you don't want to subscribe. And I thought I'd just bring you a couple of
1:28.4	headlines from that newsletter to give you a taster of the kind of things that I talk about. So
1:33.6	in news terms, there's an interesting story about a company called Neo Plants, a startup in France,
1:40.7	and they have released the NeoP1, which is genetically modified epipremum
1:48.3	orium orium, or devil's ivy or golden pathos, depending on your preference.
1:54.1	That's been genetically modified to remove VOC's volatile organic compounds, basically pollutants, from the air at a rate 30 times higher
2:06.1	than any other house plant.
2:08.9	Well, that's what the press release says anyway.
2:11.8	This is not the first time it's been done, but it is the first time I think, as far as I can
2:16.9	see, that a company is trying to sell
2:19.4	these plants to you and I. I think you can get on a waiting list right now for one, but they
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