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Hoya anulata

Hoya anulata
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Hoya anulata is a climbing or trailing vine from wet tropical rainforest, growing as an epiphyte or on rocks, with fleshy leaves and clusters of pale pink to white wax-like flowers. It grows best with bright filtered light, a chunky well-drained mix and moderate watering that is allowed to dry partly between waterings.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber, Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water thoroughly when the top of the mix is nearly dry, and reduce watering in winter.
Soil
Chunky, fast-draining epiphyte mix such as bark, perlite and coir.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New Guinea to N. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hoya anulata is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae or dogbane family and is endemic to Cape York and parts of Southeast Asia. It is a epiphytic or lithophytic vine with fleshy, egg-shaped leaves, fleshy pale pink and white flowers, and spindle-shaped follicles.

Where it grows

This species of Hoya grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte in rainforest and vine forest on Cape York, in Papuasia and on the Maluku Islands in Indonesia.

Other Hoya plants

Christmas Island Waxvine · Samoan Waxplant · Miniature Wax Plant · Hoya bilobata · Hoya calycina · Porcelainflower · Hoya deykeae · Hoya gracilis · Hoya imperialis · Hoya kanyakumariana · Red Hoya · Hoya meliflua

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hoya anulata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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