Can you identify these two house plants, please?

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by bedgebury, Jan 29, 2011.

  1. bedgebury

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    Bought two house plants a week ago from an English garden centre which were just labelled 'green house plants'. Can any one tell me what they are, please - so I can water/care for appropriately? Very many thanks for all help, suggestions, advice given. David
     

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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    The first one is Calathea rubrosa, and the second is a Ctenanthe of some description, most likely a cultivar of C. setosa. Both belong to the Maranta family, and their needs are similar - soil that drains well, and water when that soil is dry to the depth of your first knuckle. Full sun is not kind to these plants, but since they're indoors I doubt that it will be an issue - in the jungles here, plants of the Maranta family grow in almost full shade in the understory of much larger trees.
     
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    Thank you so much. You are the first person in Ecuador I have ever had contact with, and I have been around a long time, smile. David
     
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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Ain't the internet grand? You'd be even more flabbergasted to know that I'm of Scots extraction.
     
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    I live in Scotland - a place called Langholm which is just over the SW border about 20 miles from Carlisle - where I have been for 10 years. But, I am afraid, a Londoner by birth. All the best, David
     

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