Maranta Leuconeura | Prayer Plant

Prayer Plant, (Maranta Leuconeura), also called Praying Hands, is a flowering plant of the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics. It has spreading leaves that turn upward towards the evening, seemingly in prayer for evening Vespers. 

––britannica.com 

Vespers

|Ves•pers| /n./ 

1. A service of evening prayer

2. A prayer of promise

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