I got this hoya as a rooted cutting in a trade in July 2003. The lady I traded with told me she hadn't had much luck with it, but I still wanted it. I think the leaves are among the prettier with the net of veins... It grew quite fast in the beginning, and then it stopped completely. I repotted it and it started growing again.

All of a sudden in December 2004 the leaves started to get mushy, but they were still green! I tried to save a cutting, but I guess it was too late... The plant was dead before Christmas 2004. I'm thinking of getting a new one, but we'll see...

In August 2006 I received an e-mail from a guy in Singapore. He thought I should have a photo of the flowers of Hoya elliptica on my website and so he sent me one. The photo was taken by his friend Joe Lim and the flowers are just lovely! He also gave me a description of the fragrance: The chinese here make steamed rice buns and cakes and it has this yeasty slightly sourish sweet fragrance. And the elliptica flowers' fragrance seems similar to that.

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