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In Singapore: Ant Plant, Periuk Hantu, Perutak, Sembuku (Native to Singapore)
Myrmecodia tuberosa is an epiphytic ant plant from the coffee family that grows on trees in humid tropical forests. It forms a swollen, hollow tuber that ants live in, and it is grown mainly as a novelty or conservation plant.
Myrmecodia tuberosa, one of many plants commonly known as ant plant, is a species of epiphytic plant in the family Rubiaceae. The species has a symbiotic relationship with some ant species where ants use the hollow body of the plant as shelter, defend the plant from other insects, and provide nutrients to the plant through their waste.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myrmecodia tuberosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
