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Hoya acuminata

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber, Epiphyte
Native range
E. Himalaya to Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hoya acuminata is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to a stretch of Asia from the eastern Himalaya to Indochina.

Where it grows

The species ranges from the eastern Himalaya through Myanmar to Indochina. In India it has long been known from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, and was recorded for the first time in Nagaland in 2023, in the Kohima district at about 1,721 m elevation.

Other Hoya plants

Wax Plants · Hoya acanthominima · Hoya acicularis · Hoya aeschynanthoides · Hoya agusanensis · Hoya alagensis · Hoya albida · Hoya albiflora · Christmas Island Waxvine · Konkan Wax Flower · Hoya alwitriana · Hoya amboinensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hoya acuminata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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