What is Dischidia?

There are about 80 types of Dischidia , a member of the Asclepiadaceae family or milk eyelashes. Most species are myrmecophilic or plant plants that provide residential areas for ants. Plants Dischidia end or open -air museum climbing plants that usually live on trees in parts of Australia, West Asia and the Western Pacific. Growers generally grow them in hanging pots, in pots with trillises or climbing materials and similar situations. People usually increase them for their unusual leaves that are dimorphic, which means that the leaves grow in more than one shape or form.

In the wild, dischidia plants and species of ants have live space and AntS reciproce on plants. Some leaves on plants are hollow and ants use these "rooms" as kindergartens. Plants obtain nitrogen and carbon Demands of ants such as excrement of ants, dead ants and unopened insect parts. Plants absorb carbon dioxideIdenth, which exhale ants, and this exchange helps the plant to maintain water. Some species have leaves that lie on the trunk of the tree and provide shelter for an ant colony.

It is unusual leaves that growers generally consider fascinating. Ant Chamber's inflated leaves are responsible for some of the common names. d. pectinoides , called kangaroo pocket and threppence ravioli, has a pouch -shaped leaves that are more flatter and elliptical than most other species. Other species have leaves that can be rounded, similar to a balloon or cucumber. Thruppence Urn plant does not have inflated leaves, but has large, flat leaves under which they live when they hold when they stick to tree trunks.

Wax dischidia flowers are not large and striking. In general, they are small, the FS -shaped pitcher reduces that it is often carried on axil, where a few leaves grow. Many of them appear on alternative pairs of LIShere. The flower color ranges from white to red and most of them have five petals at the top of the swollen base in the shape of a pitcher.

Orchid of buttons or d. Extensive leaves may have a pink shade, especially when they are exposed to sunlight. Generally, growers increase it as a hanging plant or as a climber. Another attractive climber is d. Rafflesiana or the Malaysian Urny plant, which has yellow-green leaves that can be up to 1 inch (about 2.5 cm). It grows elongated, narrow ants randomly along the vine between round flat leaves.

growers spread plants dischidia with cutouts of stems or seed sowing. In general, it is not a garden plant and grows in pots of some kind. Prefer temperatures above 60 ° F (about 16 ° C); dry root substance without soil; And mild to high humidity. FreeNature ants help the plant to save water, but in growing plants need more moisture.