What is the name of the indoor flower that prays to God. Arrowroot: home care
The arrowroot flower is grown at home for its beautifully colored leaves. The combination of dark and light green spots on large leaves arrowroots (length - up to 15 and width - up to 10 centimeters) create a bizarre geometric pattern that is very effectively superimposed on the veins of leaf blades. Below, arrowroot leaves are colored purple.
In England, the arrowroot flower is called "praying grass." The plant got this name due to the fact that in daylight its oval-rounded leaves are lowered down, and closer to night they rise to the top and take the so-called "sleep pose".
Arrowroot flower, varieties
The most popular type of arrowroot flower is white-veined, in which the central vein of the leaves is painted in light colors. A very interesting variety of arrowroot Kerchoveana (Kerchoveana), which has exactly 10 dark spots on each leaf of a pale green color, due to which in Europe this arrowroot flower is called the "ten commandments".
Arrowroot flower variety Massangeana is distinguished by dark green, almost black leaves, decorated with silvery veins. The leaves with red veins have a rather unpretentious appearance of the arrowroot Fascinator flower. Such varieties of arrowroot as Green Player, Red Player, Kim and others are also popular.
How to care for an arrowroot flower
The arrowroot flower is native to South America and requires high temperatures and high humidity for well-being. In summer, the temperature of the arrowroot content should not go beyond 20-25̊ Celsius. In this case, the flower can sometimes be taken out into the "fresh air" in a windy place. Wintering of a flower must be provided warm, at an air and soil temperature not lower than + 18̊ Celsius.
Arrowroot lighting requires bright and indoors, it is better to place a flower pot in an appropriate place, but out of reach of direct sunlight. However, in conditions of partial shade, the arrowroot flower feels rather well.
Arrowroot is watered abundantly in summer, maintaining constant soil moisture, but avoiding stagnation of water in the pot. Always watered with warm and soft water. In autumn and winter, the intensity of watering is reduced. Humidity for a tropical flower must be provided as high as possible. To do this, it is often sprayed, especially in rooms with central heating.
The soil for growing arrowroot needs slightly acidic, and you can prepare such a soil mixture by mixing three parts of garden soil, one and a half parts of peat and one part of sand. It is also useful to add dry mullein, crushed charcoal and a little coniferous earth to it.
Fertilizing the arrowroot flower is necessary during the growing season, in spring and summer. The plant is fed with a highly diluted 1:10 solution of mineral fertilizers and mullein infusion. This is done every two weeks.
Young arrowroot flowers are transplanted annually in the second half of spring, and large plants - every three to five years. During transplantation, arrowroot is divided into two or three new flowers.
Propagate arrowroot by dividing bushes or green cuttings and do it in the spring. The bush is divided during the transplantation of the flower, while trying not to damage the roots of the plant. Green cuttings are rooted in greenhouses in conditions of high humidity and temperature.
Arrowroot blooms inconspicuously, with small white or pale lilac flowers.
Arrowroot flower, care for growth problems
If the arrowroot leaves fade and dry out, then the lighting is too bright for the flower and it must be protected from direct sunlight or the pot should be placed in the shade.
If the arrowroot flower becomes lethargic and the stems rot, then the soil in the pot is waterlogged or the temperature of the plant is very low for it. Increase the temperature, check the drainage layer in the pot and water the flower less often.
Drying of the tips of arrowroot leaves or their falling off indicates dry air in the room. The frequency of spraying the plant should be increased, and the flower pot should be surrounded by moist peat.
If arrowroot leaves curl up and become covered with dark spots, then the potting soil is not sufficiently moistened. Do not allow the soil to dry out.
The main insect pest of arrowroot is a spider mite, and in order to get rid of it, you should increase the humidity in the room and spray the flower more often.
A short South American tropical plant with decorative oval leaves is called arrowroot. Its leaves have spectacular shades of green: from light to deep dark. Bright spots, dots or veins are symmetrically located against their background. Arrowroot stems, while young, are directed upward and begin to spread later if grown without support. At home, care for arrowroot must be correct, then it blooms. Flowers, collected in spikelets, nondescript and small, appear in late spring or summer.
The beautiful plant is named after Bartolomeo Maranta, a botanist and physician from Italy, who lived in the 16th century. The seeds got to Europe with the help of the American statesman W. Houston, who was also a planter. He first discovered the plant near the city of Santa Cruz and exported its seeds to European countries. Unusual flower immediately came to the liking of their residents and took a worthy place in greenhouses and greenhouses. A lot of interesting things are told about him:
Types of indoor plants arrowroot and photo selection
The arrowroot family has about 25 varieties. Here is some of them:
Arrowroot bicolor. From a biological point of view, it is separate species quite similar to the Kerhoven arrowroot. On a small reddish petiole there are oval leaves 11-15 cm long with slightly wavy edges. From below they are pubescent, with a reddish ornament, from above the pattern is represented by rich green and brown spots. This species does not form tubers.
An unusually effective variety. The rich background of leaves of arrowroot tricolor (tricolor) fades slightly at the edges. There are yellowish or light green spots along the central red vein. At the edges of the sheet, they turn into feather-like patterns of a dark green color. Distinctly visible from above red streaks on inside leaves turn pale and acquire a pinkish tint. It is difficult to explain why the arrowroot tricolor is compared to fish, but it is also called the “red herring ridge”.
Kerhovena arrowroot - it is believed that this species is the most hardy
The plant has oval leaves (on short petioles) and small white flowers. The lower part of the leaves is colored from bluish to red. The upper one is decorated with a central light stripe and feather-like or ocellated spots of a dark green color. This species is considered hardy and you can even find a plant among inexperienced flower growers.
Unlike the above, it has dark spots on leaves (brown-olive to black) and a light central stripe. The plant is compact. Compared to the rest, this species is the most demanding to care for.
Grows in Mexico, Central and South America, and the island of Trinidad. The leaves of the plant are ovoid, the flowers are in the shape of a panicle.
The most common plant. Leaves are gray-green in color with silvery veins and colored patterns. The stem is small (up to 30 cm). Leaves are heart-shaped (length - 11 - 15 cm), below they are reddish and gray-green. The root of this type of flower is tuberous. White-necked arrowroot multiplies easily and is unpretentious.
Tall compact plant (up to 1.3 m), has thick tuberous roots. Leaves are elongated, dark green with a bluish tinge. Their shape is ovoid, with a sharp tip. Below the leaves are pubescent. The flowers are small and white.
How to care for a South American beauty arrowroot
This plant loves warmth, a comfortable temperature for it is considered to be 20-26 degrees
Watering. Arrowroot grows in nature near water bodies in wet areas. Therefore, in the summer it is necessary to moisten it often (every other day) so that the soil is slightly moist all the time. Irregular watering may cause the plant to dry out. In winter, it is desirable to reduce its frequency (1 time in 5 - 7 days). The surface of the substrate should be allowed to dry for a couple of centimeters. Excessive soil moisture can cause the root to rot. When watering, you need to prevent water from getting on the leaves so that fungal diseases do not arise. It is necessary to moisten the plant only with soft water (boiled, rain or settled).
Temperature. Maranta loves warm air, + 20 - 26 degrees in summer and + 16 - 18 - in winter. She does not tolerate temperature extremes and drafts. For this reason, it is not recommended to take the plant outside in the summer.
Air humidity
- If the flower is in a room with dry air, spray it a couple of times a day (in summer) and 1-2 times every 7 days in the winter.
- Put flower pot into an outer container, which is pre-filled with moist peat.
- You can place the pot on a pallet with damp: moss, sand, pebbles.
- Rinse the plant regularly in the shower, covering the pot with a bag so that the soil does not become waterlogged.
Despite all the measures taken to humidify the air, in room conditions the tips of the leaves dry out from the flower, but in the greenhouse the plants feel great.
Place the plant out of direct sunlight
Lighting. Indoor does not like direct sunlight of arrowroot. In bright light, the leaf plate shrinks, the leaves lose their bright color. In an unlit (dark) place, the color shade of the leaves also fades. Arrowroot prefers bright diffused light (partial shade) and grows best under artificial lighting (16 hours a day) with fluorescent lamps.
Indoors, the best place for placing a flower is a stand in the center of the room. In winter (due to lack of light), the plant can be transferred to the windowsill.
Soil composition. Breathable loose substrate - is the basis for successful cultivation plants. If you grow it in peat, then you need to add a little to the mixture dolomite flour... You can also use store-bought arrowroot mixes.
It's pretty easy to make your own substrate. There are 2 ways to prepare it:
- Peat (2 parts).
- Leafy land (2 parts).
- Sand (1 part).
Second way:
- Humus (part 1).
- Leafy land (4 parts).
- Peat (2 parts).
- Sand (1 part).
For the looseness of the substrate, sphangum moss, charcoal, pine bark, light soil from a coniferous forest are added to the mixture.
Throughout spring and autumn, the plant must be fed with mineral fertilizers.
Top dressing and fertilizers. From spring to autumn, the flower is fertilized every 2 weeks with a special (for indoor decorative leafy plants) mineral fertilizer (2 grams per 2 liters of water). You can alternate it with highly diluted organic. However, it must be remembered that the plant is sensitive to overfeeding.
In winter, arrowroot is fed with highly diluted fertilizer no more than once every 28 - 30 days.
Plant transplant and care. Arrowroot is transplanted over 3 years of age in spring(Once every 2 years), young plant- annually. To do this, take a not very deep, but wide pot, slightly larger than the previous one, because the root system of the plant is small and develops horizontally.
It is necessary to remove diseased and old leaves on the plant, and a drainage layer (charcoal, broken brick, coarse sand, expanded clay) must be laid on the bottom of the pot. It should be about 5 centimeters tall.
To make a lush bush from arrowroot, you need to cut off all the shoots at the root. As a result, new fresh shoots and young leaves are formed on the plant again.
Reproduction of arrowroot plant
Propagated by arrowroot seeds, cuttings and division.
Cuttings. In May - September, an 8 - 10 cm stalk with a pair of internodes and several leaves (2 - 3) is cut from the arrowroot bush, processed with a growth stimulant and placed in a container with water. After 32 to 45 days, it will release roots. After that, it is planted in a peat soil mixture and watered well. Cuttings root well in greenhouses with high humidity and temperature.
Division. The bush is removed from the pot, the rhizome is carefully cut into 3-4 parts, so that each tuber has a good root and several leaves. Plant each root in a separate pot of loose potting soil and cover with a transparent bag to better survival rate... Keep in a warm place.
Reproduction by seeds. You can also grow a flower from seeds. It is better to sow them at a temperature of 15 - 19 degrees and maintain it throughout the growing season.
Blooming arrowroot. The plant blooms profusely, and flower arrows appear on it throughout the summer. However, the flowers themselves are rather inconspicuous: on the arrow, small pale pink, light yellow or white flowers are collected in a spikelet.
At home, arrowroot blooms are very rare, and growers consider it a significant event.
Plant diseases and pests
Arrowroot is susceptible to a lot of diseases and pests, so you need to monitor the plant
Mealybug. This pest focuses on leaf stalks. It must be washed off with a soap solution (20 g per liter of water). Do not forget to remove the soap from the arrowroot afterwards. If washing is not effective enough, apply spraying with actellik solution.
Shields. Brown plaques appear on the surface of leaves and stems. The sheets dry up, fall off, lose their color.
Control measures
The leaves are cleaned by wiping them with a sponge dipped in soapy water (20 soap per 1 liter of water). Then the plant is sprayed with actellik solution (1 - 2 ml of the product per 1 liter of water). The treatment can be repeated several times until the pests are completely destroyed.
Red spider mite. Most dangerous pest room arrowroot is a spider mite. It usually settles on the underside of leaves that grow in a dry, warm room. The leaves on the damaged plant lose their color - they become pale and fall off prematurely. Whitish specks form on their surface, and a thin web appears on the underside of the leaves.
Control measures
Washing the leaves with a mild tobacco solution and soap. Removing damaged. Pollination (on fresh air, outdoors) ground sulfur or spraying with actellik, phytoverm, fufan, derris.
As usual, the leaves curl up at the arrowroot due to insufficient watering
Folk recipes for the destruction of mites on plants
Pass unpeeled garlic or onion through a meat grinder and dilute in 1 liter of water. Insist 24 hours, then strain. Add 5 g of soap. Pour in water at a rate of 1: 1. Treat the plant. You can also insist dandelion and yarrow.
Slow growth, dry and brown leaf edges
It happens when the air in the room is very dry. Moisten the plant regularly. And be sure to check if the flower is affected by pests. If necessary, you will need to apply an insecticide.
Leaves curl up, spots appear on them
This happens when there is insufficient watering. The soil mixture should always be slightly damp.
Yellow-brown leaf edges
With a lack or excess nutrients in the soil.
Falling leaves
With excessive watering or extremely dry air in the room. The soil should not be soggy, but slightly damp.
Decaying limp stems
Low temperature with high humidity.
Leaves dry up and lose their bright color
This happens when the sunlight is too intense.
Pruning arrowroot
Elongated plant growths should be removed as they appear. This contributes to the fact that new young shoots are actively growing from the center.
Bottom line: The arrowroot is home to the humid, diffused light, warm South American tropics. For the plant to feel as good as at home, it needs to be provided with comfortable warmth, frequent spraying and diffused light. And then the flower will constantly delight you with bright beautiful leaves.
Good luck with growing arrowroot.
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Maranta (Maranta) - perennial herbaceous plant about 20 cm high. The name was given in honor of Bartalomeo Maranta, a Venetian physician. The root system is tuberous. Shoots can be straight or creeping. Leaves are linear-lanceolate, oval-rounded, oblong-elliptical. The color is spectacular: bright spots and veins are located against the general background (from white to dark green).
Why is arrowroot called a prayer plant?
With sufficient lighting, the leaf plates are located almost horizontally, and with unfavorable factors they rise up and close, like palms. Hence the second name - praying grass. Another popular name is the Ten Commandments, since one species of this plant has 10 spots on the leaves.
Favorable living conditions contribute to flowering, but it does not have much decorative effect. Small flowers of white, light pink or light yellow color bloom on a thin peduncle. most often, the peduncle is cut off even before the flowers bloom, because after flowering the arrowroot sheds its leaves and goes into dormancy.
The plant belongs to the Marantaceae family, the genus has about three dozen species. Homeland is the swamps of South America.
Caring for the arrowroot plant at home
Site selection and lighting
Lighting is necessary diffused. Feel good in light shading. Avoid direct sunlight. If the lighting is very bright, the size of the leaf plates will decrease and the color will fade. Arrowroot grows well under artificial lighting: use fluorescent lamps, provide 16 hours of daylight.
Temperature regime
The plant loves warmth, it is painful to drafts and sudden changes in temperature. V warm time the optimal temperature range will be 22-24 ° С. During the dormant period (October-February), the temperature must be reduced to 18 ° C, the maximum temperature decrease is possible up to + 10 ° C.
How to water
In the warm season, abundant is necessary, keep the topsoil moist, but do not allow waterlogging. Reduce watering with the onset of autumn. During a cool winter, it is enough to occasionally moisten an earthen lump to prevent hypothermia of the roots.
Air humidity
The plant needs high humidity. Spray the arrowroot regularly; if the air is dry, do it twice a day. Periodically place the pot with the plant on a pallet with damp expanded clay, moss, pebbles, avoiding the bottom of the pot in contact with water. To provide additional moisture and simply cleanse the plant of dust, occasionally bathe under a warm shower, and do not forget to protect the earthy ball from water ingress (cover with a bag).
Perform all water procedures with softened, warm (room temperature) water.
Why do leaves dry
Despite the use of all measures to maintain humidity, the tips of the leaves can dry out in room conditions. The arrowroots feel best in florariums, terrariums, mini-greenhouses.
Top dressing
In spring and summer, it is necessary to feed every 2 weeks, alternating complex mineral fertilizers with organic.
Transfer
How to transplant arrowroot photos
Plants spend every 2 years in the spring. Choose a shallow, plastic pot (it holds moisture better), each time increasing the diameter by 1-2 cm. Withered and dried leaves must be cut off. Be sure to lay a drainage layer at the bottom, consisting of expanded clay, ceramic fragments, coarse sand.
Priming
A soil with a slightly acidic reaction is required. The following compositions are suitable: sheet, peat land, humus in equal proportions or garden soil, sand, peat in a ratio of 3: 1: 1.5. You can add a little coniferous earth, charcoal, dry mullein to any soil.
If you grow a flower on hydroponics or an ion-exchange substrate, feeding and transplanting will not take 2-3 years.
Pruning
How to split an arrowroot bush
Arrowroot is carried out in a vegetative way: by dividing the bush and apical cuttings.
Divide the bush during transplantation. Plant the strips in small pots with soil, as for adult plants. For successful rooting, cover the plantings with foil and place in a warm place (air temperature at least 20 ° C). When the plant grows, the shelter must be removed.
Reproduction of arrowroot cuttings
Reproduction is carried out from the end of spring and summer. Each stalk should have 2-3 leaves. Root in water - roots will appear in 5-6 days. Plant young plants in accordance with the transplant rules.
Diseases, pests of arrowroot
The arrowroot leaves curl and turn yellow, the tips of the leaves dry out
Yellowed leaves with dry tips, their curling, falling off, slowing down the growth rate of arrowroot indicate dry air - do not forget about spraying, put the plant pot on a pallet with humidifiers (moss, pebbles, expanded clay). A completely exhausted arrowroot can be bathed under a warm shower, and then covered with a plastic bag to support high humidity... Such a "bath" is able to reanimate an overdried flower. But do not forget to drop in, water-spray the plant. When you see that the arrowroot has come to life, remove the bag, but do not allow the same problem in the future: put a humidifier next to it or keep the beauty on a pallet with wet pebbles.
The second possible problem- compressed, dried earthen lump... If the plant has not been transplanted for a long time, the earth can become very compacted from perennial watering, so that even during watering it will not be moistened: water will run down the walls of the pot, bypassing the roots of the plant. Check how moisture permeable the soil is. If the problem is evident, urgently transplant the plant with a soil replacement.
If the leaves wither, the stems rot- watering is too vigorous, or the air temperature is low. urgently need to transplant: rinse the roots under water, carefully examine, cut off all suspicious, rotten parts of both the root and the aerial part. Soak the roots in a phytosporin solution, treat the green part and plant in a disinfected pot with fresh soil, cover with a plastic bag until it is used.
When the light is too bright, arrowroot leaves fade, when exposed to direct sunlight, brown spots(burns). In this case, you need to choose a place for the flower with diffused sunlight.
Pests
The arrowroot plant can be attacked spider mite... It settles on the underside of the leaf plate, envelops the plant with cobwebs white, the leaves are covered with dark drying spots. It is necessary to carry out an insecticide treatment with a repetition of the procedure after a week. It is better to prevent the problem than to solve it: to avoid pest damage, keep the plant clean, spray it regularly, do not place it near heating systems.
Types of arrowroot with photo and name
Arrowroot bicolor Maranta bicolor
It has oval or ovoid leaves. The color of the leaf plate: the main background is light green, stripes of a darker shade extend from the central vein. The species requires very careful maintenance and is best suited for growing in a greenhouse.
Arrowroot tricolor or tricolor Maranta Tricolour
The most unpretentious and popular type in home floriculture. The leaves are dark green with a lighter border, the veins are colored dark red and become darker towards the edges.
Arrowroot white-veined or white-veined Maranta Leuconeura
Dark green leaves with pink veins and a strip of silvery white running down the center. The shape of the leaf plate is oval, the length reaches 15 cm. It is unpretentious in care.
Arrowroot reed Maranta arundinacea photo
The bush reaches a height of about 1 m.The leaves are monochromatic green, oblong-oval in shape, reaching a length of about 25 cm. indoor growing not common. The roots of the plant are used for the production of starch, which is an alternative to corn.
Differs in original flowering, which are purple flowers, collected in paniculate inflorescences. When they fade, a honeycomb bed is exposed, forming a kind of cone. Leaves are oval or ovoid, color is light green with darker stripes. The care for the species is standard.
Maranta kerchovena maranta leuconeura kerchoveana
A kind of white-necked arrowroot. Able to reach a height of 25 m. Oval-shaped leaf plates are attached on short petioles. The top is painted bright green with brownish strokes creating a feathery pattern. The plant loves warmth, shade, regular water treatments.
Arrowroot massage aka black arrowroot maranta leuconeura Massangeana = Black Maranta photo
In the center of the oval leaf plate there is a wide strip of white-yellow hue, dark brown spots depart from it, the edges of the leaves are dark green, the veins have a silvery hue.
The benefits of the plant
Arrowroot is used for culinary (starch production) and medicinal (treatment of intestinal anemia, anorexia, insomnia) purposes. The plant is rich in calcium, folic acid, vitamins PP, B9.
Signs and superstitions about arrowroot
It is believed that the plant is capable of absorbing aggression, protecting the house from quarrels and disagreements. According to the practice of feng shui, the energy of the arrowroot type tricolor prevents the appearance of colds and is able to purify the blood.
Arrowroot is a perennial herb. Although arrowroot belongs to flowering plants but their flowers get less attention than their leaves. It is unpretentious shade-loving plant suitable both for breeding at home and in offices. Arrowroot is of the following types: Kerhoven's arrowroot, Masange's arrowroot, white-headed, reed arrowroot, two-color and tricolor or red-veined. But, such a variety of species does not affect the overall care of the flower, it is the same for everyone.
Lighting
Although this plant is shade-loving, it will quickly wither without sunlight. For arrowroot, diffused light is preferable. Excess sunlight can lead to the fact that its leaves change color, become much smaller. Maranta has several common names - these are "praying grass" and "ten commandments". She received the name "praying grass" due to the fact that if the plant is not sufficiently illuminated, its leaves acquire an upright position, fold like the hands of a praying person. The second name was given to him because there are ten white spots on the leaves of one of the arrowroot varieties. The British consider this a good sign, and are trying to acquire this particular type of arrowroot.
Temperature
The flower is quite thermophilic, so it will be very comfortable at normal room temperature. In summer, the air temperature in the room where the plant is located should not exceed 22-25 degrees, overheating of the plant can lead to its death. It will also be important to monitor the temperature of the soil in which the plant is planted, the temperature should not exceed 18 degrees. In the period from October to February, the plant begins a so-called dormant period. During this period, the plant will feel comfortable at a temperature of 18-20 degrees. The only thing worth protecting this plant from is sudden changes in temperature.
Watering
As with most plants, arrowroot needs moderate watering; in the active growth phase, water should be done more often, but not overdo it. At this time, ideally, the ground should be moist all the time, but not damp. Watering this flower should be slightly less when it has a dormant period. However, the frequency of watering at this time is significantly influenced by the air temperature in the room. Water must be used for irrigation room temperature, and it is better if it is soft.
Air humidity
Maranta is very fond of wet air... Therefore, along with spraying, you need to arrange for him to bathe in the shower, but you only need to wash the plant itself, cover the pot with soil with a bag. But sometimes this is not enough, and the tips of the leaves begin to dry at the flower. If this does happen, it is necessary to place the flower in a mini greenhouse.
Top dressing
For better growth the flower must be fed with both organic and mineral fertilizers. Top dressing is carried out during the period of active growth of arrowroot, i.e. twice a month. Mineral and organic fertilizers should be used alternately, while using organic fertilizers they are bred several times less than the norm. It is also not advisable to use mineral fertilizers with a strong concentration.
Transfer
The plant is transplanted in the spring. Arrowroot is transplanted once every few years. When transplanting, damaged and dried leaves are removed from the plant for better growth of young shoots. Since its root system is not very large, you should not take too large pots. Small and wide pots are sufficient. But, the pot must be either plastic or glazed clay. To transplant a plant, you need soil with an acidity level of pH-6. Such land can be purchased in the store or assembled yourself.
For self-assembly you will need:
- Leafy ground - 3 parts
- Peat - 1.5 parts
- Coniferous land - part 1
- Dry mullein - 1 part
- Sand - part 1
- Ash - 0.3 parts
- Drainage
Another of effective ways growing arrowroot is hydroponics. Hydroponics is the cultivation of plants in an artificial environment, without the use of soil. Thanks to this method, the plant can be transplanted, watered, fed quite rarely, and the effect will surpass all expectations. Thanks to this method, the plant will acquire a healthier and more beautiful appearance.
Reproduction of arrowroot
Arrowroot propagates in two ways: division and propagation by cuttings. When multiplying by division, the plant is divided into several parts, trying not to roots. Then they are planted in peat-containing soil and thoroughly watered warm water... The flower pot is placed in a plastic bag and tied loosely to create a greenhouse effect for it. Keep it in a bag until new stems with leaves appear on the plant. Reproduction by division must be done only when transplanting a plant. Propagation by cuttings is carried out in the summer or late autumn... To do this, cut off the top with 2-3 leaves from new shoots and put them in water. After the appearance of the root system, and this will happen in 5-6 weeks, I plant the plant.
Diseases and pests
In case of irrigation and natural moisture arrowroot can be damaged. But if you maintain high humidity all the time, it is unlikely to settle on this plant.
