Hydnophytum formicarum "Ant plant" Caudex
Native to Southeast Asia, the Pacific region and also extending into Queensland in northern Australia.
This species found in the jungles in Thailand and Malaysia. It's a epiphyte, and needs a lots of moist, but not much sun. It can be reproduced both by cuttings and seeds. The caudex will get op to 30 centimetres, the branches 40 centimetres.
The caudex is hollow, and forms a perfect nest for the ants, which protect the plant, and gets home and sweet sap in exchange. It get a lots of white small flowers, and small red fruits.
Dischidia found throughout the tropics of Asia.Dischidia major twines around the branches and trunks of trees, having a preference for those that are decaying. It produces both circular succulent leaves of about 2 cm diameter, and hollow, pouch-like 12 cm long leaves, reminiscent of the fruits of Araujia sericifera, a related species. These modified leaves, pitchers or ascidia, are purplish and richly dotted with stomata on the inner surface and have an opening at the top end near the stalk. Organic debris and rainwater, possibly augmented by secreted fluids, accumulate in the cavity over the course of time, offering a source of nutrition which the plant utilises by growing roots into the chamber. Dischidia astephana and D. parvifolia do not provide housing for resident ants, but have roots that penetrate decaying wood and humus, reaching into the ant nests and presumably obtaining nutrients from the ant waste there.
Myrmecodia tuberosa "Ant plant"
Native to Southeast Asia, the Pacific region and also extending into Queensland in northern Australia.
This species found in the jungles in Thailand and Malaysia. It's a epiphyte, and needs a lots of moist, but not much sun. It can be reproduced both by cuttings and seeds. The caudex will get op to 30 centimetres, the branches 40 centimetres.
The caudex is hollow, and forms a perfect nest for the ants, which protect the plant, and gets home and sweet sap in exchange. It get a lots of white small flowers, and small red fruits.
Dischidia found throughout the tropics of Asia.Dischidia major twines around the branches and trunks of trees, having a preference for those that are decaying. It produces both circular succulent leaves of about 2 cm diameter, and hollow, pouch-like 12 cm long leaves, reminiscent of the fruits of Araujia sericifera, a related species. These modified leaves, pitchers or ascidia, are purplish and richly dotted with stomata on the inner surface and have an opening at the top end near the stalk. Organic debris and rainwater, possibly augmented by secreted fluids, accumulate in the cavity over the course of time, offering a source of nutrition which the plant utilises by growing roots into the chamber. Dischidia astephana and D. parvifolia do not provide housing for resident ants, but have roots that penetrate decaying wood and humus, reaching into the ant nests and presumably obtaining nutrients from the ant waste there.
