I visited the greenhouse today, but only briefly, and I’m not really pleased with any of the shots today. But this is the best of the mediocre and I will have to find out what kind of plant this is. It does have beautiful leaves, though, doesn’t it? (Yeah, even if this is mostly out-of-focus.)
Edit Thank you again, Rich! The plant is a “prayer plant” (Maranta leuconeura), so called because the leaves stand up and roll up at night. It is an herbaceous perennial of the family Marantaceae and native to Brazil.
The plant family takes its name from Bartolomeo Maranta, also Bartholomaeus Marantha, a 16th-century (died 1571) Italian physician, botanist, and literary theorist.
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@digitalrn Ah, but the reason I'm unhappy with this shot is that it's not in focus. Very frustrating. I think you'll see this kind of leaf again sometime with a sharper image...!
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@danette Not caladium, but Maranta. This specimen does not have the same distinctive leaf-shape that caladium has.
@xtech Thanks, Elaine!