Myrmecodia

From Gardenology.org - Plant Encyclopedia and Gardening wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
 Myrmecodia subsp. var.  
Upload.png
Habit: [[Category:]]
Height: to
Width: to
Height: warning.png"" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki. to warning.png"" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki.
Width: warning.png"" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki. to warning.png"" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki.
Lifespan:
Origin:
Poisonous:
Bloom:
Exposure:
Water:
Features:
Hidden fields, interally pass variables to right place
Minimum Temp: °Fwarning.png"°F" is not a number.
USDA Zones: to
Sunset Zones:
Flower features:
[[]] > Myrmecodia var. ,


If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!



Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Myrmecodia (murmekos, an ant: the ants nest in excavations that they make in the great tubers). Rubiaceae. From 20-25 remarkable epiphytic subshrubs of E. Asia and the Pacific Isls., sometimes grown by the curious. They require the treatment of epiphytic orchids. The plants are glabrous, with 4-angled thickish or fleshy branches: lvs. crowded at the ends of the branches, opposite, obovate; stipules persistent, curiously transformed into scales: fls. small, white, sessile amongst the lvs. and modified stipules. M. Antoinii, Becc. (M. echinata, Ant.). Tuber very large, 6 in. or more diam., dull gray, tuberculate and spiny: st. inclined and flexuous, 4-grooved, the ribs covered with imbricating woody shields (stipules): lvs. at top of st., 4 or 5 in. long, elliptic-ovate to obovate, acute: fls. ½in. long, white, sessile on the ribs; corolla clavate, 4-lobed. Torres Straits. B.M. 7517. G.W. 13, p. 117; 14, p. 524.


The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.


Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Varieties

Gallery

References

External links

blog comments powered by Disqus
Personal tools
Bookmark and Share