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Calathea Makoyana
Calathea Makoyana
The peacock plant: pale leaves painted with dark green feather patterns.
- Moderate care
- Medium indirect light
- Little and often
- 15cm grow pot
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Calathea Makoyana
R 258.00
About this plant
About this plant
Calathea Makoyana
This is a prayer plant.
Also known as Peacock plant.
Keep its soil moist but be sure that it is not soggy. You will need soil that drains well, retains moisture and not water. You can water your Calathea often and in small quantities
If the soil is soggy, root rot will quickly get the better of your plant.
Medium indirect sunlight is best at all times. Make sure not to let any direct sunlight touch the leaves as it will burn quickly.
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
The peacock plant's painted leaves
Goeppertia makoyana (formerly Calathea makoyana) · also known as Peacock plant, cathedral windows, prayer plant
Native to Eastern Brazil
A prayer plant with thin, pale green leaves marked with dark green feather patterns and purple undersides. Leaves fold up at night and open again by day.
- A Calathea makoyana in a 15cm grow pot, with its famous patterned leaves.
- Leaves look hand-painted with dark feather marks on top and purple below.
- A living show: the leaves rise and fold at night like hands in prayer.
Where it thrives
The best spot in your home
Medium, indirect light, such as a south- or east-facing room, with no direct sun on the leaves. A humid bathroom with a window suits it well.
Care card
- Light
- Medium, indirect
- Water
- Little and often
- Humidity
- High
- Temperature
- 16 to 28°C
- Soil
- Moist, free-draining
- Feeding
- Half-strength monthly
- Growth
- Moderate
- Outdoors
- Best indoors
Care made simple
Your first weeks together
- Place it in medium, indirect light, well away from direct sun.
- Water little and often so the soil stays lightly moist, never soggy.
- Use filtered or rain water if you can, and group it with other plants for humidity.
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?
It's a prayer plant: leaves fold up at night and open by day.
Can it have direct sun?
Can it have direct sun?
No, direct sun burns its thin leaves quickly.
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