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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Updated! August 30, 2002
Found 5 new hoya species in section specie i-l, specie m-p & specie sp.-hybrid
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