Scientific Name: Maranta leuconeura
Common Name: prayer plant, rabbit tracks
Family Name: Marantaceae
Origin: South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 11: (above 4 °C)
Plant Type: Ground cover, Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure:
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Entire
Flowers: Raceme, White, Mar
Fruit: Capsule, Brown
Key ID Features:
Trailing tropical plant; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic to oblong-obovate, squarish dark green patches with triangular notches arranged along the midrib or striking venation; leaves fold upward and erect at night as if in prayer.