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long-lasting cut flowers and are popular for tropical flower arrangements

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Pliny the Elder (23 – 79 AD)

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Marantha Rufibarba Plant - Calathea Rufibarba, Velvet Calathea Alpinia plant long-lasting cut flowers and areMarantha Rufibarba Calathea Rufibarba, Velvet Calathea The Maranta genus includes a few dozen low growing plants native to the American tropics. Maranta have some of the most beautiful, most decorative leaves in the plant kingdom. The popular M. tricolor has deep green, velvety leaves with yellow splotches down the midrib and arching red veins traveling to the leaf margins. They are fairly common as houseplants, but not necessarily easy to keep