Ant Plant Myrmecodia SP Banten Rare Caudex US Seller🇺🇸 For Sale

Myrmecophytes, or ant plants, live in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. These plants possess structural adaptations that provide ants with food and/or shelter. Myrmecodia are also classified as epiphytes. The term epiphytic derives from the Greek epi- (meaning \'upon\') and phyton (meaning \'plant\'). Epiphytic plants are sometimes called \"air plants\" because they do not root in soil. An epiphyte is a plant that grows harmlessly upon another plant and derives its nutrition and water supply from the air and debris found in its immediate environment. Epiphytes are a non-parasitic type of plant and differ from parasitic organisms in that this type of plant only relies on its host for physical support and does not necessarily have a negative effect on the host plant.Myrmecodia plants grow in tree branches and on trunks. In nature, Myrmecodia tubers often grow hanging downward on bare branches without significant amounts of substrate, and thus depend upon symbiosis for most nutriment. The plants store food and water in a greyish brown caudex that swells and grows spines over time. The thick, unbranched stems are covered in clypeoli and alveoli which also grow spines and are densely filled with dry bracts.Please be mindful of your local temperatures. I will include a free heat pack during winter months. I am not responsible for what happens during or after shipping. Feel free to message me with any questions.This is your chance to own an extraordinary and rare ant plant
New species of ant plant from Papua freshly emerging. Now is your chance to own something no one else has! This plant has new growth coming in! Very exciting
Please be mindful of your local temperatures. I will include a free heat pack during winter months. I am not responsible for what happens during or after shipping. Feel free to message me with any questions.