Piper Ornatum (Red Betel Leaf)

Piper Ornatum aka Red Betel leaf have glossy, heart shaped leaves that are olive green with pink and silver mottling. The back of the leaf is blood red. Piper ornatum has slender stems bearing pointed, heart-shaped leaves long and wide whose leaves have reddish, long leaf-stalks, which are attached not at the end of the leaf, but slightly toward the middle. Leaf surface are puckered. The upper surface is olive green heavily spotted with pinkish silver markings. The pink tinge is almost pronounced wherever a marking occurs near main veins. Leaves undersides are unmarked deep maroon. Piper crocatum is a climbing or tailing vine that is prized for its colourful leaves that makes it an exotic indoor plant.