Dark green pleated ovate leaves adorn these beautiful and unusual plants. The bracts can range in shape from glistening beehive shape flower bracts to rattlesnake tail shape.
Flowers are the most gorgeous of the marantaceae family.
Calatheas love heat and humidity and should be shaded from hot direct sunlight. They may be grown outdoors in the garden or as container specimens kept on the moist side and fed nutritional fertilizer, they will flourish and give you years of enjoyment. Rhizomes can be lifted in cold winter climates and stored. Bracts and flowers last for weeks and make an excellent cut flower. Semi-root hardy, it makes a wonderful specimen in a large tub.