Species · genus Stromanthe · Marantaceae

Stromanthe Triostar

Stromanthe sanguinea Sond.

Also known as: Triostar · Tricolor Stromanthe · Magenta Triostar · Stromanthe Tricolor · Prayer Plant

Growth habit
Unknown
Reference · S. sanguinea

Cultivars of S. sanguinea

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under S. sanguinea yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Stromanthe sanguinea is a member of the Marantaceae, the prayer-plant family, whose species are tropical understory plants adapted to warmth, even moisture, and dappled light beneath a canopy. Give it bright indirect light and keep the mix lightly and evenly moist, watering when the top inch is approaching dry; avoid both standing water and full drying. It favors elevated humidity and will brown at the leaf margins in dry indoor air.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified
Light
ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water
ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d)
Humidity
ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil
ai:claude-fable-5
Care
ai:claude-fable-5
Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 10 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

16–27 °C

Soil mix

Light, peaty, well-draining mix

Propagation

Division of clumps at the roots

Fertilizing

Dilute balanced feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors; prized for pink-striped foliage that folds at night

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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