| Scientific Name: | Maranta leuconeura |
| Common Name: | prayer plant, rabbit tracks, herringbone plant |
| Family Name: | Marantaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | 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: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Purple, Mar |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Trailing tropical plant; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic to oblong-obovate, most 12-14cm long x 7-8cm wide, squarish dark green patches with triangular notches arranged along the midrib or striking venation (M. 'Erythroneura' is red veined), margins entire and fold together with apex pointed upward at night as if in prayer. | |