Sentence examples for prayer plants from inspiring English sources

A church pew and an old Singer sewing table displayed miniature Neanthe Bella Palm and coffee and prayer plants.

Among them are several prayer plants (Maranta species), which fold their attractive leaves at night; and the exquisite Calathea makoyana, or peacock plant, with translucent foliage marked with a feathery peacock design.

Prayer plants are shallow-rooted plants.

When given the correct amount of fertilizer, prayer plants will have healthy green stems and leaves and grow vigorously.

Philodendron (pothos or sweetheart plant), maranta (prayer plants), Syngonium podophyllum (arrowhead plant), crassula (jade plant), zamioculcas and Beaucarnea recurvata (ponytail palm).

New stems and leaves will grow from the growth nodes located below the cut where the remaining leaf is growing, so you will have lots of prayer plants to enjoy in your home.

Reaching upward like those of the tropical prayer plant, the leaves sometimes all but envelop the blossoms.

In the final zone, a flower-shop storefront, a wandering Jew intertwined its iridescent silver and purple-green vines with the hand-shaped leaves of a prayer plant.

Preserving most of the old trees, he added collections of orchids, heliconias, tree ferns, flowering ginger and calathea (a large family of showy foliage plants that includes the common house plant known as the prayer plant).

Marantaceae, or the prayer plant family, is known for a number of important commercial species; among them are Maranta arundinacea (West Indian arrowroot; starch), Calathea (wax, edible tubers, and flowers), and M. leuconeura (a decorative houseplant).

Pixie the prayer plant now "trains" other plants how to use the equipment, Hegelson says.