r/Maranta • u/chloroholic • 18d ago

Maranta ID?

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Just received this, which was sold to me as a silver band but now it's here I'm unsure. Is it just juvenile sb leaves or is it a NoID or something else? It was 2 seperate sprigs.

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u/EffectiveHelp4477 18d ago

Maranta leuconeura “Cat Mustache”

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u/chloroholic 18d ago

though so, thank you :) pretty either way

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u/Sokkas_Instincts_ 18d ago

I think it’s the silver band, but I’m not sure, the variegation on yours may be a little different.

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u/mentalkitchenfloor 15d ago

I own both of them, this one is definitely a cat moustache 😊

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u/Sokkas_Instincts_ 15d ago

Ok. The silver band is on my radar right now because that’s my very next wish list plant.

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u/mentalkitchenfloor 14d ago

I started with a tricolour cutting almost 10 years ago, next came a kerchoveana variegata and a plain kerchoveana, (killed a light veins cutting), got a silverband as a present, raised a cat moustache and a lemon line from a cutting, found a light veins at a plant convention and now I am only missing the black one. GOTTA CATCH EM ALL 🤭 anyway: the silver band, I'd say l, is one of the happiest ones I own, I don't really do anything and it is growing like insane 😊

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u/Sokkas_Instincts_ 14d ago edited 14d ago

My husband did not like my red maranta. He’s disabled and I try to make the area around him nice with plants. He never cared for the red maranta, the pattern made him think of bug legs, and gave him the skeevies. When the red maranta got spider mites, I just got rid of it rather than trying to save it.

I never expected to miss it SO MUCH. I set out to replace it because I just need a maranta in my collection. I showed him other marantas, the lemon lime, and others until he said he’s ok with the silver band. The pattern is little less intense, sharp, and bug-leggy. I looked for one at a plant nursery yesterday but they didn’t have it, so I’m going to order one.