This is a hoya that I received as a surprise from a friend who had learned that I had started liking the big leafed hoyas and it was a very nice surprise! I grow it a little shaded from the sun so the foliage gets really nice. The cutting I received was "only" two big nodes but I cut it up into two cuttings and potted them together. This was in May this year and so far it has grown really fast and I guess it'll fill up its' trellis in no time! New leaves start out quite pointy but they get rounder as they mature.

The lady I got this hoya from said she had found it growing wild near a beach in a place called Kapoho in Hawaii. It might be a seedling that "went bush".

I would guess the flowers will be the same as for the rest of the Hoya australis, but it would be nice to see them some day...

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