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Hoya imbricata

Hoya imbricata is a myrmecophile epiphytic creeper with long, thin climbing stems, occurring throughout tropical Asia.

ApocynaceaePerennial
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About Hoya imbricata

Hoya imbricata is a myrmecophile epiphytic creeper with long, thin climbing stems, occurring throughout tropical Asia. It is unusual for its large, decorative, mottled green and purple dome-shaped leaves of some 25 cm in diameter, which offer accommodation to ant colonies. The succulent leaves have the appearance of waterlily pads, and are like upturned dinner plates, convex on the outer surface and concave on the inner, hugging the tree-trunk on which the plant grows, and overlapping or...

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Native rangePhilippines, Sulawesi
ToxicityPets: Not documented · People: Not documented
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