Hoya myrmecopa

Hoya myrmecopa, described by Kleijn and van Donkelaar in 2001, is an ant-plant hoya: its thick convex leaves press against the bark and shelter ant colonies beneath them, in the manner of Hoya imbricata.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

A trunk-hugging epiphyte of lowland and lower hill rainforest, its leaves appressed to the bark and the roots running under the leaf shelters. Ant-associated hoyas tend to sit on exposed trunks and larger branches in fairly bright light rather than deep in the understory.

The climate sites lie at about 12 m and 150 m in Sulawesi and about 500 m in the eastern Philippines; the records themselves carry no elevation.

SulawesiIndonesiaPhilippines

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.