Goeppertia inocephala
One of the largest prayer plants, 1.5–3 m tall, with huge plain green oval leaves 30–55 cm long and green, yellow or sometimes red bracts spiralled on a thick stalk. It grows in wet lowland forest from southern Mexico and Trinidad to Peru and northern Brazil, and its leaves are used to wrap food and line baskets. It needs warmth, humidity and a lot of space, and its juvenile leaves can show pink markings like the Ornata group.
Where it grows wild
Lowland rainforest understorey, forest edges, gaps and disturbed secondary forest, usually on moist soil. Large Goeppertia of this kind are typical of gaps and edges rather than the darkest forest floor.
Recorded from 0 to 2342 m, but the median is 150 m (308 records), so it is essentially lowland; the highest records are probably errors or unusual sites.
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