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Hoya macgillivrayi
Red hoya is a climbing vine from the rainforests of Cape York, Queensland, grown for its dark reddish-pink waxy flowers. It likes a loose, well-drained peaty mix and bright light, and it blooms best when slightly root-bound.
Hoya macgillivrayi, commonly known as red hoya or Macgillivray's wax flower, is a species of vine endemic to Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, and has egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and racemes of dark reddish-pink flowers, sometimes with a white centre, and a reddish-pink corona.
This species requires a loose, friable peaty soil mixture and good drainage. Plants perform better when root-bound, with small applications of slow-release fertiliser at nine-monthly intervals.
This species of Hoya grows in rainforest and monsoon forest in the Iron Range, Queensland and McIlwraith Ranges on Cape York Peninsula, from sea level to 450 m (1,480 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hoya macgillivrayi 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.
