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Scientific Name: | Goeppertia makoyana ( syn. Calathea makoyana ) |
Common Name: | peacock plant |
Family Name: | Marantaceae |
Origin: | South America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Upright |
Form: | Mounded |
Texture: | Coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Obovate, Ovate, Entire |
Flowers: | Cyme, White, Purple, May-Jun-Jul |
Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep |
Key ID Features: | |
Stems reddish; leaves basal, oval-broadly elliptic, most blades 10-20cm long x 8-15cm wide, cream-like variations and dark green stripes, lower surface pinkish-purple, most petioles 10-20cm long. |