About Prayer Plant
Maranta leuconeura, widely known as the prayer plant due to its daily sunlight-dependent movements (which are said to resemble hands "in-prayer"), 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.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Maranta leuconeura
- Genus
- Maranta
- Family
- MARANTACEAE
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Marantaceae
Arrowroot Family
Prayer Plant belongs to the Marantaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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