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Hoya carnosa Hoya mindorensis, Sydney, Australia.. Hoya is a genus of over 500 species of plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, commonly known as waxflowers. [2] Plants in the genus Hoya are mostly epiphytic or lithophytic vines, rarely subshrubs, with leathery, fleshy or succulent leaves, shortly tube-shaped or bell-shaped flowers with five horizontally spreading lobes, the flowers in ...
Hoya devogelii Rodda & Simonsson – Borneo (Sarawak) Hoya deykei T.Green – Sumatera; Hoya dickasoniana P.T.Li – Myanmar; Hoya dictyoneura K.Schum. – New Guinea; Hoya dimorpha F.M.Bailey – New Guinea; Hoya diptera Seem. – Vanuatu, Fiji; Hoya dischorensis Schltr. – New Guinea; Hoya diversifolia Blume – Hainan, Indo-China to Malesia ...
Hoya carnosa var. compacta. A variant of Hoya, Hoya carnosa var. compacta, is known as the Hindu rope plant, and is characterized by its folded, curled leaves, which grow along vines resembling ropes. The inflorescences of this variant tend to take on a pinkish color.
The Cornish plant collector Thomas Lobb found plants of Hoya bella growing on trees on a hill near Moulmein, then the capital of British Burma. Lobb shipped the live plants to his employers, Messrs. Veitch and Son of Exeter. [2] Kew Gardens consider that the plant is also native to Manipur in northeast India on the border of Myanmar. [1]
Hoya australis is a succulent climbing vine to subshrub that typically reaches a height of 4–10 m (13–33 ft). It has fleshy or leathery, elliptic, oblong, egg-shaped or more or less round leaves up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long and 120 mm (4.7 in) wide.
Apocynaceae (/ ə ˌ p ɑː s ə ˈ n eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /, from Apocynum, Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, [1] because some taxa were used as dog poison.