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Calathea caesariata

Calathea caesariata is a lowland-to-premontane Calathea of Panama and adjacent Costa Rica, described by Helen Kennedy in 1977. Herbarium labels describe its habitat as tropical wet forest. It wants warm, humid, shaded and evenly moist conditions all year.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Like other Calathea in the strict sense (the bracted, mostly Central and South American group that stayed in Calathea when Goeppertia was split off), it is a clump-forming terrestrial herb of wet forest. GBIF specimen labels record it in 'tropical wet forest'. Most records come from central Panama and the Caribbean slope, mainly between 50 and 1400 m.

The 53 records with an elevation run from 50 to 1400 m, with a median of 400 m.

Costa RicaPanamá

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.