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Botanical details
- Family
- Marantaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Ctenanthe
- Genus description
Ctenanthe are bushy evergreen perennials grown for their usually strikingly patterned, lance-shape to obovate leaves; irregular and usually inconspicuous tubular white or yellow flowers are borne in short racemes intermittently throughout the year
- Name status
Correct
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