Hoya calycina subsp. calycina
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Hoya calycina subsp. calycina |
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Origin: Papua New Guinea |
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The first Hoya calycina subsp. calycina I owned was a cutting I bought from a hoya collector. After two years I gave up on it as it just would not grow. This year (2007) I bought a big plant, with a lot of buds, at the florist´s. It flowered for four weeks! The whole plant is pubescent and the leaves are quite hard. The large, campanulate flowers spread a heavy, sweet scent during the evenings. If there are more than one umbel flowering at the same time the scent can be |
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overwhelming. This hoya needs to dry some between waterings. I have my plant in a sunny southern window where it seems to thrive. |
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Copyright © Jeanette Karlsen |
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