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Prayer plants (Maranta leuconeura) are tropical flowering perennials that are often grown indoors as a houseplant. While they are relatively easy to care for, one issue you may encounter is the ...
Prayer plants have a low-growing form that looks best in hanging baskets or cascading out of pots. Here's how to care for them. Prayer plants have a low-growing form that looks best in hanging ...
Calathea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Marantaceae. They are commonly called calatheas or (like their relatives) prayer plants. About 200 species formerly assigned to Calathea are now in the genus Goeppertia. [1] Calathea currently contains around 60 species.
The specific epithet leuconeura means "white-veined", referring to the leaves. [2] The leaves have a habit of lying flat during the day, and folding in an erect position at night as if in prayer for evening vespers, [3] hence the common name "prayer plant". [4] [5] This behaviour is an example of a diurnal rhythm.
Calathea spp. M Maranta leuconeura: prayer plant Bacterial diseases ... Fungal diseases; Common name: Scientific name: Plants affected: Alternaria leaf spot
Maranta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to tropical Central and South America and the West Indies. [2] [3] Maranta was named for Bartolomeo Maranta, an Italian physician and botanist of the sixteenth century. About 40-50 species are currently recognized. [1] They all have rhizomes and naturally form perennial ...
When shade-loving plants get too much light, the chlorophyll in the leaves is broken down by the light. The sunburned leaves begin looking blotchy , pale, faded, or washed out.
Goeppertia roseopicta [2] is a species of flowering plant in the arrowroot and prayer-plant family Marantaceae, native to northwestern Brazil's Amazonian basin.Oftentimes, it is marketed as a houseplant under its former generic name and synonym [1] Calathea roseopicta.