Hoya

Hoya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Gentianales
Family:Apocynaceae
Genus:Hoya
Species

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Hoya is an extensive genus of tropical climbing plants in the family Apocynaceae. The common names for this genus are waxplant, waxvine, waxflower or simply hoya. This genus was named by botanist Robert Brown, in honor of his friend, botanist Thomas Hoy.

Many species are popular houseplants in temperate areas (especially H. carnosa), grown for their attractive foliage and strongly scented flowers.

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Description

These species are climbing vines or shrubs. They have simple opposite leaves that are typically succulent. Flowers appear in axile umbellate clusters.

Distribution

These plants are widely found from India to southern China, but also in Australia and Polynesia.

Miscellaneous

The Hoya is the mascot of Georgetown University. Many years ago, students well-versed in classical languages invented the mixed Greek and Latin chant of Hoya Saxa, meaning roughly as What Rocks, in reference to both the stalwart defense of the football team and the stone wall that surrounded the campus. (Hoia means in Greek what or what a, and saxa is Latin for rocks.)

Species

The genus comprises more than 200 species, and numerous cultivars that are not listed here:

  • H. acuta
  • H. affinis
  • H. albiflora
  • H. archboldiana x onychoides
  • H. aldrichii
  • H. anulata
  • H. arnottiana
  • H. australis ssp. australis - Australian waxflower
  • H. australis ssp. keysii
  • H. australis ssp. oramicola
  • H. australis ssp. rupicola
  • H. australis ssp. sanae
  • H. australis ssp. tenuipes
  • H. archboldiana
  • H. bella - beautiful hoya, miniature waxplant
  • H. benquetensis
  • H. bhutanica
  • H. bilobata
  • H. bordenii
  • H. brevialata
  • H. burtoniae
  • H. callistophylla
  • H. calycina
  • H. campanulata
  • H. camphorifolia
  • H. carnosa - porcelain flower, waxplant
  • H. carnosa x serpens
  • H. caudata
  • H. cembra
  • H. chlorantha
  • H. chlorantha var. tutuilensis
  • H. chuniana
  • H. ciliata - black hoya
  • H. cinnamomifolia
  • H. citrina
  • H. clemensiorum
  • H. collina
  • H. cominsii
  • H. compacta
  • H. coriacea
  • H. coronaria (H. sussuela, H. maxima)
  • H. cumingiana
  • H. curtisii
  • H. darwinii
  • H. davidcummingii
  • H. dennisii
  • H. densifolia
  • H. deykei
  • H. dimorpha
  • H. diptera
  • H. dischorensis
  • H. diversifolia
  • H. dolicosparte
  • H. elliptica
  • H. endauensis
  • H. engleriana
  • H. erythrina
  • H. erythrostemma
  • H. eitapensis
  • H. excavata
  • H. aff. finlaysonii
  • H. flagelleta
  • H. flavescens
  • H. flavida
  • H. fraterna
  • H. fungii
  • H. glabra - jolly green giant hoya
  • H. globulosa
  • H. gracilis
  • H. greenii
  • H. grifithii
  • H. guppyi
  • H. halophila
  • H. heuschkeliana
  • H. hypolasia
  • H. kanyakumariana
  • H. kenejiana
  • H. kentiana
  • H. kerrii - Valentine hoya, sweetheart hoya, waxheart
  • H. imbricata (H. pseudomaxima)
  • H. imperialis - honey-plant
  • H. inconspicua
  • H. incrassata
  • H. incurvula
  • H. ischnopus
  • H. juanngoiana
  • H. lacunosa
  • H. lacunosa ssp. lacunosa
  • H. lacunosa var. pallidiflora
  • H. lacunosa ssp. pallidiflora x H. obscura
  • H. lambii
  • H. lasiantha
  • H. latifolia
  • H. lauterbachii
  • H. limoniaca
  • H. linearis
  • H. litoralis
  • H. lobbii
  • H. loheri
  • H. longifolia
  • H. macgillivrayi
  • H. macrophylla
  • H. macrophylla variegata
  • H. magnifica
  • H. megalaster
  • H. meliflua ssp. fraterna
  • H. merrillii
  • H. micrantha
  • H. microphylla
  • H. mindorensis
  • H. mitrata
  • H. montana
  • H. motoskei - spotted waxplant
  • H. multiflora - shooting star hoya
  • H. naumanii
  • H. nawbawenensis
  • H. neocaldonica
  • H. neo-ebudica
  • H. noid
  • H. nummularioides
  • H. obovata
  • H. obscura
  • H. obtusifolioides
  • H. odetteae
  • H. onychoides
  • H. oreogena
  • H. pachyclada
  • H. padangensis
  • H. palawanica
  • H. pallilimba
  • H. parasitica
  • H. parviflora
  • H. patella
  • H. pauciflora
  • H. pentaphlebia
  • H. picta
  • H. pimenteliana
  • H. plicata
  • H. polystachya
  • H. polyneura - fishtail hoya
  • H. pottsii
  • H. pubicalyx
  • H. pulchella
  • H. purpurea
  • H. purpureo-fusca
  • H. pusilla
  • H. retusa
  • H. revoluta
  • H. ridleyi
  • H. rigida
  • H. ruscifolia
  • H. samoensis
  • H. schneei
  • H. serpens
  • H. shepherdii - string bean hoya
  • H. siariae
  • H. sigillatis
  • H. sipitangensis
  • H. solaniflora
  • H. subcalva
  • H. subglabra
  • H. subquintuplinervis
  • H. teretifolia
  • H. thailandica
  • H. thomsonii
  • H. verticillata
  • H. vitellinoides
  • H. vitiensis
  • H. wallichii
  • H. walliniana
  • H. wayetii
  • H. waymaniae
  • H. wightii
  • H. wilbergiae

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