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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. |