Hoya

Name: Hoya (Asclepiadaceae)
Common Name: Wax flower

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.

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Pictures:
Hoya carnosa
Hoya macgillivrayi

  See also:  Climbers, Culture / Germination

Full Sun Part shade Plenty of water during the growing season Half hardy Perennial

Hoya carnosa 

Name: Hoya carnosa

Flowers


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

Hoya macgillivrayi 

Name: Hoya macgillivrayi

Flower

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


Flower