Hoya siariae Kloppenburg

This hoya comes from the Philippines and it was described in 2002.

At a first glance this hoya could be mistaken for bordenii, sp. Philippines IML 831, benguetensis or blashernaezii just by looking at the leaves, but bordenii and IML 831 get redish leaves in the sun. What benguetensis and blashernaezii look like in sun, I have no idea... Hoya siariae stays green even in sunshine - at least it does with me! The leaves are about 8-17 cm long, 2-4 cm wide and has visible veins but no spots.

The flowers are cup shaped and about 1.2 cm in diameter. The colour is a strange pink, almost transparent. The corona is darker pink with a yellow center. There is anything from 10 to 25 flowers in an umbel. The flowers only last a couple of days and I haven't been able to detect any fragrance from them. The flowers of siariae resemble those of blashernaezii but differ in colour (blashernaezii is yellow).

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