A Brazilian calathea with leaves which are horizontally banded in light and dark green and purple.
Calathea zebrina, family Marantaceae
Example sentencesExamples
- Fertilize your zebra plant every month with a half-strength solution of an all-purpose soluble fertilizer.
- Those that have allowed their zebra plants to wilt a time or two knows the results.
- Someone gave Joshua a zebra plant with some lucky Chinese coins in it.
- I moved my zebra plant to the bathroom where it's more moist but it still has brown edges and then drops leaves.
- These natives of the American tropics are commonly called zebra plants due to the characteristic striped foliage.
- It is very similar to a calathea or a zebra plant, but it doesn't have the purple underside.