Prayer plant
Maranta leuconeura É.Morren
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Marantaceae
Also called Prayerplant
Formerly Calathea fascinator, Calathea kerchoveana, Calathea leuconeura, Calathea massangeana, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–12 in; Wikipedia 30–30 cm
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–24 in; Wikipedia 30–30 cm
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 1.7 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4.4 °C; Wikipedia -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Sapito
- Chinese
- 豹紋竹芋, 豹纹竹芋
- Czech
- maranta běložilnatá
- Chinese (China)
- 豹纹竹芋, 红脉叶蝉竹芋
- Turkish
- maranta
- Lithuanian
- Baltagyslė maranta
- French
- Dormeuse
- Portuguese
- Maranta-tartaruga, Tartaruguinha, Baratinha
- Danish
- fiskeben
- Finnish
- paavonnukkumatti
- Polish
- maranta białounerwiona
- Russian
- Маранта беложильчатая
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Maranta leuconeura (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.