Can you make a pic of an open flower - in Macro setting - means the bigger the better from the side and from the top - as well as seed pods? It is a big forum and we can get lucky and have an insight from a specialist in SE Asian flora.

What you need to find out is a latin name for it.

Good luck.

irina

Ouki Irina... will take a picture like that when the buds open up.

hi there,
this is Dischidia pectinoides, a hoya relative. the "seeds" are actually a modified leaf that has an ecological role in their ant symbiosis. it's a really fun plant!

-ming

Wow!

Ming - thank you

Irina

Thanks Ming.
I have something else to say regarding the "shell-like" pod. I "adventurously" opened one of the shell pods and found there're roots inside it. Actually, the shell seems to form in order to protect the "aerial" roots of the plant. So I don't know whether Ming is referring to the same plant or not.
Irina, the buds never open. In fact, one of the buds has gone straight to form a pair of seeds.
Although I don't know its scientific name, it's a nice plant. If it's related to hoya, it's the more better.

i read that the ants will designate one of the pods as a dump site and take their waste there; they choose other pods to live within. i don't know how true it is, but the inward-growing roots are a way for this plant to utilize this waste as a sort of fertilizer. hoyas and dischidias are all asclepiads.

-ming

This is the new seeds of the plant.

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You're right, Ming... it's a dischidia pectinoides. I found a pic at Bob Smoley's Hoyas page. You're definitely a plant expert! Thanks.