Myrmecodia becarii

[Amelie.Poulain]

David, any of the tenant move in yet?

[Robert]

worth it , David. How spiky when compare with M.tuberosa?

[David]

Originally Posted by Robert

worth it , David. How spiky when compare with M.tuberosa?

Much more spiky compared to tuberosa and seems to be longer and thicker. I am basing waht I just said on the few plants I have. The spikes on tuberosa is also harder and sharp like a needle. M. becarii's spikes are softer and does not really poke your hand when you touch it.

Originally Posted by Amelie.Poulain

David, any of the tenant move in yet?

Nope! It would be interesting to have ants actually living in the tuber. I think it won't happen since I grow them in my apartment. I have a about 10 pots of ant plants in my apartment and none of them has ants living in them. But then again, if they start to have ants living in them, they will be kick out of the house by the "Minister of Home Affairs".

[atmccmn]

David,

Thought you might be interested in this. While I'm doing some files cleaning from my computer, bump into this old file. Some picts of Hydno. moseleyanum from Tropiflora (photo credit to Tropiflora). A fine specimen plant! Sure is a beauty for caudex lovers.
Here they are:

[David]

WOW... WOW... WOW!!! Thanks Andy. Their moseleynum looks so healthy with so much leaves and such a thick tuber. Hmm, it is grown quite dry huh? Maybe I should do that for my tuberous ant plants too.

By the way, the moseleynum plantlets that I grew from seeds are starting to have the second set of leaves. Really slow growing and so far none of them have the swollen tubers yet. Any advise? How are the seeds I mailed you? I suspect they might not germinate as my friend hand carried those back to Malaysia for me, whcih is a delay of a couple fo weeks from the time the seeds were collected. Those that I had was the other half he mailed to me once he got them from the seller. I understand that the shelf life for the seeds are really short.

[atmccmn]

David, only 2 germinated out of about 20++ seeds you gave me. Mine only have it's first set of leafs with a 'decent' base. Not really swollen but you can see a broad base there. Perhaps you wait for a couple of sets of leaves to see what happen next.

[David]

Ok. will do.