Sign in Start free
Species library › Maranta › Maranta ruiziana
Other Partly documented

Maranta ruiziana

Maranta ruiziana is one of the more widespread wild marantas, ranging across Amazonian and central Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and the Guianas from sea level to about 1,400 m. It is a rhizomatous forest-floor herb of wet and seasonally dry lowland forest; at home it wants warmth, shade and even moisture with a slightly drier, cooler pause in winter.

Maranta ruiziana
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Grows on the floor of lowland and foothill forest, including gallery forest and forest edges in the Brazilian and Bolivian lowlands where most records come from. The recorded sites are warm all year with a distinct dry season from May to September.

0 to 1,380 m, median 300 m across 87 records; predominantly lowland.

BrazilBoliviaPeruColombiaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaSurinameVenezuela

🔒 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

Grow Maranta ruiziana? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.

Start free Sign in

More Maranta

Maranta leuconeura Maranta arundinacea Maranta gibba Maranta albolineata Maranta albopicta Maranta amazonica Maranta amplifolia Maranta anderssoniana Maranta argentea Maranta arrecta Maranta asymetrica Maranta atrata All 96 →

Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 2.0 licence, unmodified.