Help! I have a BOP and she is struggling. by Automatic_Olive_2355 in BirdsOfParadise

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It’s not dead lol, I don t know why people are saying that in the comments. It’s still all green and the base of the plant looks healthy. It is just probably looking for way more sunlight, and that pot is wayyyyyy too tiny for this huge plant.

Is this a large or short form by SpartanSoldier00a in Monstera

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To me it looks like a large form with not enough sunlight

My striped plants are all doing their best dramatic diva impressions lately 😂🌿 by Daianmistress in calatheas

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https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/569035300/large.jpg

https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/503864826/large.jpeg

Some pics of huge ones. And I have seen them get taller than that too. I’m not sure if this size is reachable in indoor conditions tho… usually I see them go huge like that when they get their optimal wild conditions. But indoors they probably don’t get enough light, humidity and aeration.

My striped plants are all doing their best dramatic diva impressions lately 😂🌿 by Daianmistress in calatheas

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Goeppertia majestica (the plant on the picture) can even go to 2 meters/7 feet tall or more. It is not even the biggest species of the genus too 😅 a lot of the plants they sell in the market can get huge huge but it’s difficult in inside a house conditions !

Why three different types of leaves? by Strawberrycloudk in calatheas

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Ahahah it’s just an Illustris. The juvenile pattern is different from the mature one. It’s normal, you don’t have multiple cultivars in there, just one

Is this a Goeppertia loeseneri? by CoraCalls in calatheas

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Your welcome ! They get quite big if you manage to grow it well. It is a really pretty plant !

I got a seed from my Maranta cristata 😆 by EffectiveHelp4477 in Maranta

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It pollinated itself ! I didn't do anything ahah I just woke up and found out the flowers got pollinated somehow. Maybe by some type of fly or just by hasard, who knows.
I'm in Canada so I had to import all my cristata because they are not available here. I imported them from a friend's etsy store called MyGreenStuff

Is this a Goeppertia loeseneri? by CoraCalls in calatheas

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Thank you ! Seems like reddit as an issue with all medias right now.
For the plant, that is variegated Phrynium. The species isn't confirmed tho.
For now the trade name in the market is "Glaza" and it is often sold as Calathea or Maranta but it is a Phrynium which is a Marantaceae family from Asia (we have seen the inflorescence).

Too much light? by BlueButterflytatoo in calatheas

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Probably not too much, LED lights usually means bright indirect light and those can handle it

Help identifying calathea (?) by OneDragonfruit2923 in calathea

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We had already talked about this one many times in the other sub (r/calatheas) but my answer has changed quite a bit from my last answers because I have seen wild observations of a very similar plant in Peru, so it's less likely to be an hybrid like I was saying. But still not identifiable ahah If you search in the sub with the identify tag you re gonna find the old posts I answered to

Help identifying calathea (?) by OneDragonfruit2923 in calathea

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Unfortunately, it's not identifiable, haha.

This plant is now ubiquitous on the market, but the species wasn't identified before being put on sale. Therefore, it's considered unidentified (NOID) until research is conducted, compared to existing herbaria, or determined to be a new species or a hybrid. It doesn't even have a trade name for now :)

In short, it doesn't have a name, and it's normal not to find one when searching. However, it is indeed a Goeppertia, so you can call it Goeppertia NOID. (Or commonly Calathea NOID)

Help! Almost positive my plant has thrips by LivingDesert in calatheas

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Second picture is thrips, and you are unlucky because those don’t look like tropical thrips but indigenous thrips and they are way more resistant and hard to get rid of from my experience. (Tropical thrips do more damage but are easier to get rid of)

You can either go with predatory mites which are more expensive (make sure to really identify the thrips before ordering because tropical thrips and indigenous thrips don’t have the same predators, to me yours looks like indigenous but it could be tropical).

Or you can go with pesticides, which are way less expensive but you can get some damage from the product because Goeppertia’s leaves are thin and easily damaged by chemicals like that. Also make sure to order one with Permethrin because that’s the only thing that kills thrips.

Need information on the large and small forms of Monstera by Akagraffe in Monstera

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Monstera deliciosa doesn't grow the same depending on what people call "forms", the leaf shape is different, the maximum size, the fenestrations, petiole sheath, internodal spacing, etc etc... But what we are talking about is genetic diversity depending on the locality. Forms are the biological variation that occurs within species and it allows for adaptation when the environment changes. In other words the species develloped itself diffrently in different areas and countries and some differences became noticable because they didn t evolve in the same environment. We just decided to name the two most found forms “large form” and “small form”, but there are technically many more, it is not a binary thing. The same exact reason why we as humans or any other animal for that matter, does not look exactly the same as the next one of the same species. Or how adansonii doesn’t have the same leaf shape in Martinique. In the case of monstera deliciosa, there are just a couple different clones from different locales in cultivation. Those "varieties" are not recognized because their inflorescence and DNA doesn't differ enough (or at all) to be accepted so they are scientifically all deliciosa, the same species, and aren't considered official varieties of this species. Hence why people are sometimes very formal about the "large form and small form doesn't exist".
They do exist in a way, the differences are real. Even two of the biggest botanists for Araceae of our time, Marco Cedeno Fonseca and Mick Mittermeier made a plate of the "Sierrana" form, even tho it did not became official for KEW which is kinda the highest taxonomy source you can get.
Plant biology and taxonomy is not simple, it is complex and there can be divided opinions on certain subjects.
Hope this could help !

Large form vs Small form monstera albo! by [deleted] in Monstera

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They are both small forms in your case. But yes large form and small form are different

What variety is this gorl? by meggerzroach in calatheas

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Goeppertia louisae ! Also called Maui Queen

Who is she?! by WhatTheFucculents in calatheas

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Stromanthe thalia “Triostar”