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Hoya bella
Hoya bella is a small trailing epiphytic shrub from the tropical forests of northeast India and Myanmar, grown for its fragrant white and purple flower clusters. It needs bright light, a porous epiphyte mix, and to dry out between waterings.
Hoya bella, the beautiful hoya, waxflower or pretty waxflower, is a species of tropical epiphyte with trailing stems, slightly succulent leaves and pendant umbels of fragrant, white and purple flowers. It is an asclepiad in the periwinkle and milkweed family, Apocynaceae.
The Cornish plant collector Thomas Lobb found plants of Hoya bella growing on trees on a hill near Moulmein, then the capital of British Burma. Lobb shipped the live plants to his employers, Messrs. Veitch and Son of Exeter.
Hoya bella was described and pictured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1848. Part of that description included:
Christmas Island Waxvine · Hoya anulata · Samoan Waxplant · Hoya bilobata · Hoya calycina · Porcelainflower · Hoya deykeae · Hoya gracilis · Hoya imperialis · Hoya kanyakumariana · Red Hoya · Hoya meliflua
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hoya bella 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.
