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Claret hoya

Hoya verticillata

Claret hoya
Photo: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Native range
Indian Subcontinent to S. China and W. & C. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hoya verticillata, commonly known as claret hoya, is a species of climber in the oleander and frangipani family Apocynaceae. It is found from India to southern China, through southeast Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines. Called "Palu-lobboi" in Bangladesh.

Uses

Parts of the plant are used for medicine in Bangladesh and India.

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 verticillata 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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