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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Myrmecodia platytyrea 'Ant Plant'   Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:33 pm
Got this one off of ebay ain't it great Smile







Then got spoilt with an extra one in the parcel

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lewis




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PostSubject: Re: Myrmecodia platytyrea 'Ant Plant'   Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:50 pm
cool Betty. unusual looking thing.
don't they grow on trees in the wild?
or can you just grow them like any other succulent.
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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Re: Myrmecodia platytyrea 'Ant Plant'   Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:04 pm
Yep they do Lewis, I am not going to mount these as I have to give them warmth and a pot is easier to put of the heat mat. They would not like our cold winters at all as they grow in tropical climates
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PostSubject: Re: Myrmecodia platytyrea 'Ant Plant'   Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:07 pm
G'day Betty, Have the ants moved in yet? if not I've got a few billion Argentine ants you can have! Laughing
I like this plant, a late friend of mine had one once, she struggled to keep it alive here in Tas. Dunno what happened to it in the end, but it is one intriguing plant.


Cheers, CP.
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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Re: Myrmecodia platytyrea 'Ant Plant'   Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:35 pm
CactusPolecat wrote:
G'day Betty, Have the ants moved in yet? if not I've got a few billion Argentine ants you can have! Laughing
I like this plant, a late friend of mine had one once, she struggled to keep it alive here in Tas. Dunno what happened to it in the end, but it is one intriguing plant.


Cheers, CP.


CP I am struggling with the bigger one and have since got two others that are doing OK on the heat mat. I also got sent some seeds kindly sent to me last week from seeds collected up on the North Coast of Queensland so I will sow these after the big shift early November.

I have the feeling these plants will be spending a lot of their time on the heat mat under lights particularly with cool nights. Yikes what have I got myself into.............I swore never to have plants that neat heat and humidity and here I am doing just that Laughing
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