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Goeppertia mediopicta, the middle-stripe prayer plant, is a leafy tropical perennial from southeastern Brazil, grown for its striped foliage. It needs warm, humid, low-light conditions and steady moisture.
Goeppertia mediopicta (syn. Calathea mediopicta), the middle-stripe prayer plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Marantaceae, native to Espírito Santo state in southeastern Brazil. The specific epithet mediopicta means having a stripe or color down the middle. Goeppertia mediopicta has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goeppertia mediopicta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
