Maranta leuconeura
About
Maranta leuconeura, widely known as the prayer plant due to its daily sunlight-dependent movements, is a species of flowering plant in the family Marantaceae native to the Brazilian tropical forests. It is a variable, rhizomatous perennial, growing to 30 cm (12 in) tall and broad, with crowded clumps of evergreen, strikingly-marked oval leaves, each up to 12 cm (5 in) long. The plant spreads itself horizontally, carpeting an entire small area of forest floor, sending roots into the substrate at each leaf node.
- Family
- Marantaceae
How to use it
This evergreen perennial is well-suited as a striking groundcover or low-growing specimen, as it naturally spreads horizontally to carpet small areas. Because it sends out new roots into the substrate at each of its leaf nodes, it can easily anchor itself and expand across a space.
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Gardening tip
When growing this plant, give it room to spread horizontally. It will naturally carpet its growing area by sending new roots directly into the soil substrate at each of its leaf nodes.
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Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Maranta leuconeura
- Slug
- maranta-leuconeura
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Marantaceae
- Genus
- Maranta
- Species
- leuconeura
- Wikidata QID
- Q6754829
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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