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Caeté bravo, Maranta Sanguinea

Family Marantaceae, Stromanthe sanguinea

Description:

The Stromanthe sanguinea has a shrub-like development. These plants give origin to a brush with a rounded form. The Stromanthe sanguinea Is medium in size; in winter it assumes a greenredpinkwhite colouring. These are evergreen plants, which means they keep their leaves year round. This plant prefers very luminous locations, but not direct exposition to sun

Habitat:

The 32 species in the Genus Maranta can be found in tropical and subtropical regions of southern Mexico, West Indies, Central America and South America (to northern Argentina).

Notes:

Order: Zingiberales () - Grisebach, 1854 Family: Marantaceae () - R. Br., in Flinders, 1814, nom. cons. - Prayer-Plant Family Tribe: Maranteae

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3 Comments

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Susan, thank you very much for bringing this spotting to my attention again. It was one of my first, and I didn't have sources for researching then, but now I could do it.

SusanEllison
SusanEllison 11 years ago

interesting find

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Bromiliad inflorescence which is the seed pod after the flower.

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil

Spotted on Jan 1, 2011
Submitted on Aug 13, 2011

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