Nice list, thanks! I have a dog, so the indoor plants I have are nontoxic: an african violet, a nontoxic fern, culinary herbs in hubby's Aerogarden, and a goldfish plant (which I love!! It is so cool looking.) Used to have a Persian violet which was fabulous and fragrant-- smelled great for about 2 months, but it eventually finished flowering, sickened and died. It was replaced by the goldfish plant.

The toxic plant list helps me pick plants for outside, cuz the bunnies cant/wont/betternotiftheynotwhatsgoodforthem eat it. :) D

Hey Folks, I'm late to this thread, I know, but it's definitely a Peperomia, caperata sounds right. Those flower spikes are the tell-tale ID on these, & yes, they will get somewhat taller. Some folks casually refer to that style of bloom as a rat tail-like spike, cause really, nothing else resembles that. When I was in college, I lived briefly in a dorm on campus & this was the only plant I had. I kept it on my window sill & got it 'cause I was smitten /w its texture, I love the corrugated look it has. Mine was the all green version. I have since grown a few other Peps (& there are even a couple of succulent Peps), tho' have none at the moment. I also really like the Watermelon Pep (sorry, only know the common name) as it has really cool leaf markings. I seem to recall that some Peps can be propagated from leaves (Rhizo, does that ring a bell w/ you?), cut kind of crosswise, like one can do to an AV. Purp, perhaps if you break a leaf or 2, try potting them up too, ya never know!!! Pretty plant, enjoy!

I think you could root this in plain perlite, moist. I have a friend who does this w/ all kind of cuttings, plain perlite kept slightly moist & covered. Otherwise, since I don't know if you're a newbie or not, soiless mix usually refers to a combination of peat, perlite & vermiculite instead of "soil". As to whether a leaf cutting (or part of a leaf) will work for this, I really don't know. From my own experience, I'e only tried that w/ w/ Pep caperata & Watermelon Pep (P argyrea?). Yeah, ditto abt the 'black soil', since it was me who asked it earlier. So Toni, what pls. is black soil, curious minds would like to know?!