{"id":86,"date":"2015-10-23T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:15:30","slug":"anthouse-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/23\/anthouse-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthouse Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2013 I went travelling to Australia in search of the Anthouse Plant Myrmecodia beccarii<\/em>. This species has a fascinating symbiotic relationship in the wild between the host plant, the Golden Ant and the Apollo Jewel Butterfly.<\/p>\n

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An Anthouse plant growing in situ’, Cairns, Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two smaller plants mounted on a piece of cork bark in the normal greenhouse conditions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A slightly larger plant that I am growing in a warm box with some lowland Nepenthes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am pleased to have introduced these into my collection of tropical plants and I hope they survive through the winter. The slightly larger plant I decided would be worth putting in the heated box with some lowland Nepenthes<\/em>\u00a0to see which plants grow the best. Normal greenhouse conditions or extra warmth?<\/p>\n

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Dischidia pectinoides growing in my greenhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another species of plant with the common name of the Ant plant but in fact a different genus altogether is Dischidia pectinoides.<\/em>The leaves of the Dischidia<\/em> shown here have bullate leaves which curl around on themselves forming a hollow chamber within, the ideal haven for ants. These plants grow as an epiphyte. High humidity, warmth and good light is all this plant needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2013 I went travelling to Australia in search of the Anthouse Plant Myrmecodia beccarii. This species has a fascinating symbiotic relationship in the wild between the host plant, the Golden Ant and the Apollo Jewel Butterfly. I am pleased to have introduced these into my collection of tropical plants and I hope they survive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}