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Common name: Flower pot plant, Malayan Urn Vine, Ant Plant
Family: Asclepiadaceae
Country of Origin: India to Australia (The Plant Book by D.J. Mabberley)
Accession information: ? acquired from U.C. Davis Botanical Collection prior to 1994?
Accession number: B1994.U.16
Culture: epiphyte; mist aerial roots daily; mist with dilute fertilizer
Has pitcher shaped leaves (stomata inside, those outside probably closed). Adventitious root grows from stem or
petiole into leaf; detritus, largely collected by ants, accumulates in pitchers as does rainwater thus
made available to roots. (Source: The Plant Book by D.J. Mabberley)
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