Learn all about the Best Calathea Types! This genus has some of the most stunning varieties for your houseplant collection.
Calathea is a popular houseplant famous for its gorgeous leaves. Regardless of which you’re going to pick from these Calathea Varieties, their eye-catching foliage is sure to turn many heads in your home!
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1. Round-leaf Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea orbifolia
This variety has 8-12 inches wide, leathery leaves with creamy and light-green stripes. It prefers humid conditions and well-draining soil. Keep it under partial shade.
2. Rattlesnake Plant
Botanical Name: Calathea lancifolia
Rattlesnake calathea features long and narrow, light-green leaves with edges in dark green marks. Place the plant in bright filtered light and use rich, well-draining soil.
3. Furry Feather
Botanical Name: Calathea rufibarba
Also known as Velvet Calathea, it has lance-shaped green foliage with velvety purple undersides on long burgundy stems. It is tolerant to lower light conditions.
4. Corona
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Corona’
Corona calathea varieties have large glossy foliage with bright green to creamy patterns. It thrives in well-draining soil. Protect the plant from cold drafts.
5. Dottie
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Dottie’
Dottie has deep-green foliage that looks almost black, with fuschia pink outlines on each leaf. Keep it in bright, indirect sunlight and mist regularly to maintain humidity.
6. Rosey
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Rosey’
Rosey features large oval-shaped leaves with green edges and a pink center with purple undersides that fold during the night. Grow it in well-draining soil and protect it from cold drafts.
7. Jungle Velvet
Botanical Name: Calathea warscewiczii
It grows in lance-shaped, velvety dark green leaves with light green patterns. Grow the plant in high humid conditions or use a humidifier.
8. Peacock Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea mako yana
This beautiful calathea has thin, dark green to purple foliage with peacock markings and lime feathering on red-pink stems. Keep it in bright, indirect sunlight and high humidity.
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9. Eternal Flame
Botanical Name: Calathea crocata
Eternal Flame’s ruffled lance-shaped dark green leaves retain their color for a long and look magnificent with yellow flowers! It thrives well in bright, indirect sunlight and loves the morning sun.
10. Pin-stripe
Botanical Name: Calathea ornata
Pin-stripe offers foot-long oblong dark green leaves patterned with pink-white stripes on long green stems. Grow this calathea in well-draining and slightly moist soil.
11. Zebra Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea zebrina
The dark to mid-green patterns on its velvety leaves resemble a Zebra’s skin. These types of Calathea also grow purple-white flowers in spring. Place the plant in filtered sunlight for optimum growth.
12. Sanderiana
Botanical Name: Calathea ornata ‘Sanderiana’
Sanderiana has glossy dark green leaves with rose-cream pinstripes and purple bottom sides. The plant thrives in indirect sunlight, so keep it in a bright spot.
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13. Freddie
Botanical Name: Calathea ‘Freddie’
Freddy looks quite stunning with its light green, long, narrow leaves patterned with dark-green feathery veins! Place the plant in bright indirect light, and follow these steps to maintain humidity.
14. Network Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea music ‘PP0005’
This stunningly textured cultivar has variegated small green leaves. The plant does well in bright indirect light, so it is ideal for keeping it by the East or West window.
15. White Fusion
Botanical Name: Calathea ‘Fusion White’
Fusion white has a fantastic marbling of white and green on the foliage with a bright purple underside. If you love showy plants, this is the one to grow!
16. White Tiger
Botanical Name: Calathea albertii ‘White Tiger’
The white tiger has a charming white pattern in the shape of waves on the dark green leaves. Pair it with other varieties on this list for a splash of colors.
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17. Misto
Botanical Name: Calathea ‘Misto’
A hybrid variety features dark green foliage with a light and bright green center with serrated variegation. It’s perfect for tabletops and shelves.
18. Beauty Star
Botanical Name: Calathea ‘Beauty Star’
If you love green, then you will absolutely adore this plant. The foliage has a bright green feathering from the center that flows towards the dark green ends of the leaves.
19. Medallion
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Medallion’
The plant’s foliage has a certain sheen on the surface with hues of silver and emerald green on the green base. The back of the leaves is in the shade of purple.
20. Rose-painted Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Little Princess’
This beautiful Calathea variety has dark leaves of purple that appear almost black. These are covered in beautiful pink patterns, too.
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21. Calathea Picturata
Botanical Name: Calathea picturata
Also called Calathea picture ‘Argentea,’ it has amazing foliage of contrasting hues. It has dark leaves, and it looks like there are lighter leaves printed on the foliage.
22. Bachemiana
Botanical Name: Calathea bachemiana
If you love stripes, this one is for you. The Calathea bachemiana has elongated leaves of light green covered in darker stripes.
23. Marantifolia
Botanical Name: Calathea marantifolia
Marantifolia has simple green leaves with textured veins that you can feel. It grows 3-4 feet tall and also gives tiny yellow-white flowers.
24. Thai Beauty
Botanical Name: Calathea louisae ‘Thai Beauty’
If you get your hands on the Thai Beauty Calathea, don’t let it go. It has beautiful leaves of lime green, white, yellow, and dark patterns that make it look like it was painted.
25. Latifolia
Botanical Name: Calathea latifolia
With large, pleated foliage and clusters of tiny purple flowers, Latifolia is a wonderful choice for the garden. It is called Bijao by the locals of Panama.
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26. Albertii
Botanical Name: Calathea albertii
Light green leaves with yellow centers and dark green stripes – you can never go wrong with the Albertii Calathea variety.
27. Calathea Compact Star
Botanical Name: Calathea setosa
The leaves of the Never Never variety of Calathea have a beautiful silver-green color with dark green stripes. It reaches a height of 1-3 feet easily.
28. Calathea Anulque
Botanical Name: Calathea anulque
Anuque is an evergreen perennial Calathea type with beautiful leaves of light and dark green. It won’t flower indoors, though.
29. Cigar Plant (Cuban Cigar)
Botanical Name: Calathea lutea
A lovely Calathea with broad leaves and a massive height of 10-12 feet – it is so named because of the shape of its flowers.
30. Eclipse
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Eclipse’
You will find the Eclipse varieties of Calatheas in South America. Give them indirect light, and they’ll keep thriving.
31. Helen Kennedy
Botanical Name: Calathea dressleri ‘Helen Kennedy’
The Helen Kennedy is a beautiful Calathea named after Helen Kennedy, a great cultivator and researcher of the Calathea genus.
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32. Ecuadoriana
Botanical Name: Calathea ecuadoriana
Ecuadoriana Calathea can grow up to 2 feet tall and has dark green leaves with a light green stripe across the central vein.
33. Calathea Elliptica
Botanical Name: Calathea elliptica ‘Vittata’
If you’re looking for types of Calatheas that flower – Elliptica has small cream ones with lavender edges. The leaves are pretty, too.
34. Ice Blue Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea burle-marxii ‘Blue Ice’
This one does not grow too tall and will make the perfect houseplant. Give it medium to bright light (indirect).
35. Lotus Pink
Botanical Name: Calathea loeseneri
You can’t miss this beauty when talking about Calathea types – it is named as it has blooms that look like a miniature lotus.
All of the different Calathea varieties given below have been reclassified as Goeppertia as per the latest botanical research. However, they’re still Calatheas and make wonderful houseplants.
36. Calathea Fucata
Botanical Name: Calathea fucata
This large leaf Calathea is often mistaken for Freddie. But the color on this one is a bit lighter.
37. Calathea Fasciata
Botanical Name: Calathea fasciata
The ‘Fasciata’ variety is popular in Brazil and commonly grown as a houseplant. It loves humidity.
38. Micans
Botanical Name: Calathea micans
The Micans Calathea type never crosses a height of 1 foot, making it a miniature wonder. And it has stunning leaves with a light stripe running across the rib.
39. Rattle Shaker
Botanical Name: Calathea crotalifera
It has a large flower that sticks up like a rattlesnake’s tail. 2 Calathea types look like a rattlesnake – this one and Calathea lancifolia, which is mentioned in point number 2 of our list.
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40. Stromanthifolia
Botanical Name: Calathea stromanthifolia
Native to Bolivia, this Calathea variety has oblong, patterned leaves and delicate purple-red stems.
41. Wiotii
Botanical Name: Calathea wiotii
Wiotii is a smaller Calathea type with glossy leaves covered in dark green patches. You will also find it as Goeppertia wiotii.
42. Silverplate Roseopicta Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Silverplate’
The Silver Plate has amazing leaves of a faded green color with dark green edges and peach veins. What a beauty!
43. White Star
Botanical Name: Calathea majestica ‘White Star’
This is one of the most beautiful varieties on our list. It has light green leaves with dark green veins and edges. And it’s enhanced with subtle white-pink stripes.
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44. Undulata Calathea
Botanical Name: Calathea undulata
Calathea undulata has a beautiful appearance. Its foliage is dark green and has a silver-green stripe running across each leaf’s rib.
How come there nothing written about the white infusion?
There is
they didn’t add that it’s the most difficult of all :D
I want prise of this plant. Looking stunning
You have Eclipse and Medallion mixed up.