Английская Википедия:Hoya imbricata

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Hoya imbricata is a species of plant in the genus Hoya native to the Philippines and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.[1][2] It is unusual for its large, decorative, mottled green and purple dome-shaped leaves of some Шаблон:Convert in diameter, which offer shelter to ant colonies.

The succulent leaves 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 imbricate in the fashion of roof tiles.[3] While other species of Hoya and the related genus Dischidia grow in a similar habit, Hoya imbricata is also unusual in having only one leaf per internode.[2]

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