Ant plant at my garden
 

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Anyone able help me iD the plant?

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Anyone able ID the plant? Thanks...

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Have the ants move into the condominium? :)
Its Myrmecodia tuberosa.
Looks like it grows happily at your place :)

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There is no ant move in yet. Because I havent find a permanent place for both of them yet... :shy:

I like it very much!!! :1thumbup:

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I like it very much tooo!!! Had been looking for it since my secondary school. Only found it last year.

Same with the staghorn. Glad to found it thru our bromeliad king here. Hehe

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If you still have any others ant plant/fern for sale. Please lets me know... interested to get more...

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what?!?!?
ant plant breeds ants?


Thanks
Harris

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Ant plant is provide a "interior design" that ant like. Once they love it, they will move in there and have house warming inside it. *biggrin2*

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wow seems fun!
you can make a ant colony using it :)
one big ant family haha

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Is it growing in LFS???

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For the adult plant, im using cocochip + sphagnum moss. Portion is 2:1 or 1:1, cannot recall... :shy:

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Just settle a permanent place for them. Wish ant will move in soon!!! PRAY!!!!!! :tongue:

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caseyhoo

your plant come from nursery ?

it is a myrmecodia yes but a tuberosa ? the most common are tuberosa but in this species a lot of ' variety' ( 16 , according to their native region )

have you others infos on her native region ?

I am looking for also some rubiaceae ( myrmecodia-hydnophytum-squamellaria-myrmephytum-anthorrhiza) , ant dischidia-solanopteris I have some rubiaceae in trade or swap ( plant-drupe) .

jeff

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My plant is from rhealk. He said it is Myrmecodia tuberosa :shy:

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others infos on her native region is welcome *biggrin2*

this genus myrmecodia have 59 species ,all are possible .

jeff

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Any reason it is not tuberosa? Please advise

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may be it is a tuberosa , but what variety ?

or not , a lot of other myrmecodia have the same shape juvenile

he come from nursery ? find in the nature but in what region ?

have you a picture to the adult in flower , specialy the stem with their clypeoli and alveoli .

jeff

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Not aware that they have variety :)
Mother plant comes from logged secondary forest in Sarawak and visually fits the characteristic of tuberosa.
Do not have the photo of flower but its uninteresting tiny white flower which ripes into tiny orange fruit.

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does this plant need direct sun or just partial?how about wetness of soil?

the plant looks fun :1thumbup:
can play like were owning a 5star condominium which has residences which is ants! ehehe

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mine is from the "virgin" jungle of Tioman Island, south east of Malaysia....what would be the variety?

owning antplants is because of the strange tuber shape of the plant however, housing ants has pros and cons...ie you have a healthy plant that attracts ants, thats good......and you have nightmare are ants a disease carrier that affects other sensitive plants like the orchids.....more experience grower can explains further:glare:

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casey, have you try place them near your nep which attract most ants? maybe this will encourage them to relocate to there ^^

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I grow it side by side with my nepenthes. Maintenance of the plant is same as nepenthes.

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for the malaysia peninsular just one variety

M.tuberosa 'armata'

for the sarawak 3 possibility

M.tuberosa 'armata' ; M.tuberosa 'bracteata' ; M.tuberosa 'apoensis'

in sarawak , near what town ?

have you a macro to the clypeoli and alveoli ( on the stem ) ?

but you have reason on the specie , in this region you have just tuberosa , you told me
irian jaya or papua new guinea it would not have been the same thing *biggrin2*

jeff

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Interesting to know that they have so much variety.
Unfortunately no macro on the clypeoli and alveoli for the time being.
Do you have macro on your side which can be used as reference?

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hi jeff,

i would appreciate too on the macro shots references that you could provide.....tioman island is part of peninsula malaysia however its flora and fauna always has something that is distinct from the mainland.:1thumbup:

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My ant plant is flowering... small flower is pop out from the "stem" of the plant...

Any idea it will pollinate by it self?

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wow, already flowering stage......good.:1thumbup:

mine had succumbed from its injuries (rotted because too long submerged in the river):sweating:

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by it self or by the ant

send me by PM if it possible some picture ( the adult plant , the leaves , the stem with the apex ) for a determination.

jeff

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How big is it when it started flowering?
Mine also flowering and few types of ants moved in but they didn't stay long. Rental too high I guess

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if you start from seeds , 3- 4 years are necessary to have flower then drupe ( seeds inside)

just some ant are infeoded to the ant plant also if their species is not infeoded at these plants they did'nt stay along here in europe it is particulary true

jeff

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My mother plant is flowering non-stop. Few months ago just realize that there is seeds in seed pod. Here is end result... :) Now, I have at least 15 plantlet...

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Hahha....congrats.

Can reserve?

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kevyn, that is for sure...

I found that the way of its flowering is really weird. White flower is pop up from plant body... Then, it turn brown. When try to plug the seed pod from mother plant, it seems like the seed pod is buried in the plant body. :spinning:

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it is quite common on M.tuberosa.

jeff

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Here is latest photo of the plant.

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very nice

can you take picture from the stem in totality, from the caudex to the leaves , to see all the alveoli and the clypeoli .

this picture from clypeoli is very interessant .

merry christmas and happy new year 2012

jeff

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My latest plant that I got from a Malay uncle for RM10

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This is ant plant killer? The uncle said it is medicine
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very very interessant , may be a hydnophytum , from what region it comes ?

in last picture have you a name to this plant ?

jeff

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WOW! What did you do to help it flowering like that? I have so many plants that do not flower at all. :( I don't know what I am doing wrong. Am I maybe using a wrong fertilizer? I thought about ordering new plants flowers making kind of an experiment with a new fertilizer and a new way of treatment. Maybe that will help and if it does I might switch on my other plants to the same method hoping they will flower once again and are not completely ruined.

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Bonjour

may be your plants are juvenils ?

what species have you ? what cultivate condition ?

I use here ,without ant ,this fertilizer NPK : 25-5-5 ( type green plant with a big N)

CASEYHOO for me if your plant come from Sarawak, it is a Myrmecodia tuberosa 'armata' .

I am very very interested by this rubiaceae genus , if some people is also interested , tell me. I am also very very interested by their picture 'in situ' .

jeff

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Plant come from Kelantan, Malaysia. I dont know the name of the last picture :(

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Noted, will label the plant as Myrmecodia tuberosa 'armata'.

Jeff, Im not understand the sentence "I am very very interested by this rubiaceae genus , if some people is also interested , tell me. I am also very very interested by their picture 'in situ' ." :confused:

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I am very very interested by this rubiaceae genus , if some people is also interested , tell me. I am also very very interested by their picture 'in situ' .


excuse me :blush: it is not for you ,but for all the people reading this post.

jeff