{"id":4563,"date":"2009-03-17T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/science\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:45:33","slug":"rattlesnake-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/rattlesnake-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rattlesnake Plant<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Colathea lancifolia<br \/>\nPrayer-Plant Family<br \/>\nGenus: Calathea<br \/>\nFamily: Marantaceae<\/em><br \/>\nFolk\/Other names: Calatheas, Prayer Plants, &#8220;Silver Plate&#8221; (a particular breed), etc.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Temperature Zone: USDA: 11-12<br \/>\nFrost Tolerance: Keep above 60\u00b0F (15\u00b0C)<br \/>\nSun Exposure: Shade<br \/>\nWatering Needs: Keep uniformly moist<br \/>\nAbout: The Rattlesnake Plant, of the Prayer-Plant Family, is of the Genus Calathea, and the family Marantaceae that contains several dozen species in the genus. Found throughout the tropical Americas, the plant is also found as a popular pot\/houseplant due to the decorative nature of the leaves or its colorful inflorescences.<\/p>\n<p>Folk\/Cultural Uses: Large and tough leaves often used for holding small items. Used unprocessed to wrap fish for transport in parts of Brazil; Handicraft to produce containers; Quivers of the Nukak people of Columbia; decorative Calathea-leaf rice containers in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Biological Importance: herbivores such as the caterpillars of the Purple Owl (Caligo beltrao) feed on C. zebrina. Several species of this plant are threatened with extinction due to habitat destruction.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/photogallery\/2009\/feb\/021709\/dc021709-051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/photogallery\/2009\/feb\/021709\/dc021709-051.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRattlesnake Plant at National Arboretum from Brazil<br \/>\nSmithsonian, National Mall, Washington, D.C.More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calathea\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calathea<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rattlesnake Plant Colathea lancifolia Prayer-Plant Family Genus: Calathea Family: Marantaceae Folk\/Other names: Calatheas, Prayer Plants, &#8220;Silver Plate&#8221; (a particular breed), etc. Recommended Temperature Zone: USDA: 11-12 Frost Tolerance: Keep above 60\u00b0F (15\u00b0C) Sun Exposure: Shade Watering Needs: Keep uniformly moist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/rattlesnake-plant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,28,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-flora","category-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}