Accession Data

Hydnophytum formicarum

Common Name: Pumpkin form

Family: Rubiaceae

Country of Origin: Phillipines: Quezon Province, Luzon

Accession Data

Accession #: 201800100

Accession Date: 2018-10-06 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪓 Not Flowering

Location: 4103

Quantity: 1

Source: Frank Omilian

Provenance:

2nd generation seedling. Parent plant seed was collected from a wild plant growing as an epiphyte on a mountain range in Quezon Province on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines.  The seeds were collected in September of 2006 by Merlin Sy of Pinoy Plants.

This clone stays small and starts reproducing very early.  The caudex is round and eventually forms ridges that make it look like a miniature pumpkin.  It is sometimes sold as Hydnophytum formicarum ā€œpumpkinā€.
Additional Provenance Info

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Gentianales

Family: Rubiaceae

SubFamily: Rubioideae

Tribe: Psychotrieae

SubTribe: Hydnophytinae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, October 06, 2018.
  2. WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, October 06, 2018.

Images

Hydnophytum formicarum