Derrick Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 Columnea crassifolia Brongn. ex Lem. (Adolphe Théodore (de) Brongniart) ex (Antoine) Charles Lemaire.) L'Horticulteur Universel 6: pp203-205, t. 7. (1844). (Hort. Universel) Not yet digitised. http://legacy.tropicos.org/name/14000978 An attractively flowering upright small shrub. Image. https://plantingman.com/columnea-crassifolia-flowering-plants/ Ecology. Mentioned as an ant garden resident on this Nancy Botanical Gardens, France, web page. https://tools.bgci.org/garden.php?id=191 I have not been able to find supporting evidence on the www, but it is a probable contender. Range. Guatemala. Honduras, Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurélien Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 I'm quite sure to have find it in a list of ant-garden plants a few years ago... But I can't find my references yet. Or perhaps I'd did a misinterpretation with Codonanthe crassifolia (Codonanthopsis c.)? The really near Columnea linearis si reported from ant-gardens in Costa-Rica. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228473711_The_diversity_and_ecology_of_ant_gardens_Hymenoptera_Formicidae_Spermatophyta_Angiospermae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurélien Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 A specimen of our accession from Botanischen Tuinen, Utrecht, in cultivation since 1978! It correspond mostly to the heterotypic synonym C. stenophylla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 25, 2020 Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 Excellent photos!😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Jaguar Posted June 4, 2020 Report Share Posted June 4, 2020 I have collected Columnea crassifolia on many occasions in Chiapas, México and Guatemala. It is invariably found in upper foothill or middle elevation cloud forest. Never, not once, found it associated with ants. I agree with Aurélien's view that someone almost certainly mixed genera and confused with Codonanthopsis crassifolia, a VERY different-looking, near obligate Central American myrmecophyte in nature. Columnea linearis is a lowland tropical forest species that rarely makes it to low elevation Caribbean versant cloud forest in southern Central America. This is an example of a wild-source, cultivated Columnea crassifolia in my garden in Guatemala from 1,600 m in Quezaltenango Department, Guatemala. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrick Posted June 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 Thanks for this. I have removed it from my tome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurélien Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 Nice pictures Jay, and thanks for in situ observations 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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