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Hoya imbricata

Hoya imbricata
Photo: James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hoya imbricata is an epiphytic Hoya from the Philippines and Sulawesi, grown for its large, dome-shaped, mottled leaves that overlap like roof tiles. It is an ant-plant that is often grown mounted on bark or in a basket with bright, humid conditions.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water thoroughly when the mix is nearly dry, and less in winter; the thick leaves store water.
Soil
Chunky, well-draining epiphyte mix of bark, perlite and charcoal, or mounted on cork or bark.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Philippines to Sulawesi
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hoya imbricata is a species of plant in the genus Hoya native to the Philippines and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Other Hoya plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hoya imbricata 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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