HOYA WORLD by Tipol |
Hoyas are known as the wax plant because their flowers and leaves have a waxy look and feel to them. It is a genus in the family, Asclepiadaceae. Asclepiadaceae is the "Milkweed family". The plants in this family don't have milkweed. Most of them have milky sap and that is why the common name for Asclepiadaceae is the milkweed family.The sap runs clear in such plants as the Hoya carnosa and Hoya fungii. The nothernmost boundary of hoya habitats is in the lower Himalayas, i.e., Nepal, Assam. The southern boundary is Java and Australia. The western boundary is central India and the eastern boundary is Samoa. Almost all Hoyas are vines that either trail or climb, but some are more shrub like or actually hang down. They are |
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always found on the stem and branches of trees in the forest. Their leaves also
vary from very succulent as Hoya australis ssp.rupicola to coriaceous as Hoya
coriacea, from very large as Hoya grabra to tiny as Hoya
engleriana. Also, their flowers range in size from nearly 4 inches in Hoya
lauterbachii to 3mm in Hoya filiformis. Their colors go from white,
yellow, green, pink, purple to dark red and to nearly black in Hoya ciliata. All
colors are found in hoyas except blue.
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Updated! August 30, 2002 |
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Found 5 new hoya species in section specie i-l, specie m-p & specie sp.-hybrid |
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Last Updated 30/08/02 07:28:21 |
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