Goeppertia variegata
A large prayer plant from northern South America and Trinidad, related to the pin-stripe Goeppertia ornata. It has huge, broad green leaves on long, thick stalks, green to purple beneath. Young leaves carry light green bands either side of a dark central pattern, which fade to plain green as the plant matures. It is a lowland forest-floor plant that needs warmth, shade, moist soil and humid air, and space for its size.
Where it grows wild
The sources found do not describe its wild habitat. Like its relatives it is presumed to be a clump-forming herb of shaded, moist lowland rainforest floor, in humus-rich soil.
No elevation is recorded in the sources found; it is presumed to be lowland to foothill forest.
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