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Calathea Golden Mosaic
Calathea Golden Mosaic
A prayer plant with long leaves splashed in cream and gold on green.
- Moderate care
- Bright indirect light
- Keep evenly moist
- 15cm grow pot
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Calathea Golden Mosaic
R 245.00
About this plant
About this plant
Calathea Zebrina
Also known as Yellow Prayer Plant, Ctenanthe Golden Mosaic
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Light Requirements: Prefers bright, indirect light; direct sun can scorch its leaves.
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Watering: Keep the soil consistently moist but not soggy. Use filtered or distilled water, as it can be sensitive to fluoride or chlorine.
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Humidity: Thrives in high humidity — ideally above 50%, making it a good candidate for bathrooms or with a humidifier nearby.
- Mist the leaves occasionally or use a pebble tray to maintain humidity
Note: Each individual plant is unique. This image is an example only, however the plant you receive will be as close as possible to this image description.
Note: Stem length indicated above is a guide to the estimated length rather than an exact length that you will receive.
Delivery and packaging
Delivery and packaging
We deliver nationwide with The Courier Guy: Pudo locker R89 or to your door R145. Gauteng customers can also collect in Boksburg (R25).
Orders ship from our depot within 7 working days, and most are on their way sooner. A few rarer plants are ordered in specially for you, which is why we allow 7 days. Couriers don't deliver on weekends.
Every order is packed by hand to survive the courier.
Healthy arrival guarantee
Healthy arrival guarantee
If your plant arrives dead or damaged, we replace it. Just let us know within 24 hours of receiving it and send us a few photos.
For everything else, see our refund policy.
Meet the plant
Splashed leaves in cream and green
Sold as Calathea Golden Mosaic (prayer plant family, Marantaceae; also listed as Ctenanthe 'Golden Mosaic') · also known as Golden Mosaic, yellow prayer plant
Native to Tropical South America (parent species)
A prayer plant with long, upright leaves boldly splashed with cream-yellow patches. Leaves rise and fold in the evening and open again by day.
- A full Golden Mosaic in a 15cm grow pot, with bold cream-splashed leaves.
- Each leaf is patterned differently, and the leaves fold up at night like a prayer plant.
- A statement plant for a humid, bright room such as a bathroom.
Where it thrives
The best spot in your home
Bright, indirect light away from direct sun, such as near an east-facing window. Humidity above 50% helps, so a bright bathroom is ideal.
Care card
- Light
- Bright, indirect
- Water
- Keep evenly moist
- Humidity
- High, over 50%
- Temperature
- 16 to 28°C
- Soil
- Moist, free-draining
- Feeding
- Half-strength monthly
- Growth
- Moderate, upright
- Outdoors
- Best indoors
Care made simple
Your first weeks together
- Place it in bright, indirect light, away from direct sun.
- Keep the soil moist but not soggy, using filtered or rain water.
- Set it on a pebble tray or near a humidifier.
Plant doctor
If you see this, do this
- Crispy brown leaf edgesThe air is too dry or the water too hard. Raise humidity and use filtered or rain water.
- Curling leavesThirsty or too much sun. Water and move it further from the window.
- Yellow lower leaves, soggy soilToo much water. Let the top few centimetres dry before watering again.
Questions
Good to know
How big is the plant?
How big is the plant?
A plant in a 15cm grow pot. Every plant is unique; the photo shows the size to expect.
Why do the leaves move?
Why do the leaves move?
Like all prayer plants, it folds its leaves up at night and opens them by day.
Why filtered water?
Why filtered water?
It's sensitive to chlorine and fluoride, which can brown the leaf edges.
Packed to arrive alive
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