Maranta Leuconeura

The Prayer Plant is native to Brazil, Asia and Africa. It’s a very unique plant that has the ability to fold its leaves in prayer-like form and then open them again the next morning. Their leaf patterns have colors of red, green, brown and cream. The flowers are small and insignificant, but the patches of colors on their leaves get darker and more vibrant as the plant ages.

Place your Prayer Plant in bright, indoor light. Avoid putting it in direct sun because too much sun will fade the leaf colors and burn the foliage.

Keep the soil of a Prayer Plant moist, but never soggy.

Unlike most houseplants, this plant does not like to dry out before you water.

During the Spring and through the Fall feed your Prayer Plant every month. Use a high-quality water-soluble houseplant food applied at ½ the recommended strength. Make sure your soil is damp before feeding your prayer plants.

• Prayer Plants like a very humid environment so increase the humidity around the plant by grouping plants together, putting a small humidifier or bowl of water near the plant, or setting it on a tray filled with pebbles and water. Be sure that the plant is sitting on the pebbles and not in the water.
• A Prayer Plant is a non-poisonous houseplant.

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