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Hoya
Family Asclepiadaceae
Name Hoya
Common Name Wax flower
Pictures:
Hoya carnosa
Hoya macgillivrayi
Hoya purpureofusca
  See also:  Climbers, Culture / Germination

Hoya is a succulent climber that produces pendulous umbels of starry white / pink flowers. The fragrant flowers apprear in late spring / summer, usually on old leafless flowering spurs.

Culture:
Full SunPart shadePlenty of water during the growing seasonHalf hardyPerennial

 Hoya carnosa


Flowers
Name Hoya carnosa


Dripping sticky nectar
The flowers drip sticky nectar just before they drop.

 Hoya macgillivrayi


Flower
Name Hoya macgillivrayi

This hoya produces one of the most showy flowers of the genus. It is a root climber native to Australia.


Flower

 Hoya purpureofusca



Flowers
Name Hoya purpureofusca

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