Background Hoya is one of the Asian genera with high diversity and a well-known ornamental plant amongst the hobbyist and as a plant used for medicinal purposes. In Indonesia, at least there are 100 species known to science with diverse morphological characteristics and habits...

Background Hoya diversifolia is unique perennial climber that can be found living in its natural habitat ranging from Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Java, and the Philippines. It has mild scent flower that can grow up to 20 flowers developed...

Background Hoya glabra is a tenacious climber that can be found in Borneo's Sumatera and North to Northwest Kalimantan. It is a lowland mangrove forest plant with enormous, succulent green leaves that can reach a length of 20 cm. Hoya glabra blooms come in...

Background Hoya imbricata is a flowering plant species in the Apocynaceae family. In its natural habitat, it has dimorphic leaves and coexists with an ant population. H. imbricata, unlike most Hoya, loses opposite leaves; one leaf remains smaller and aborts, while the other leaf...

Background Hoya kerrii, also popularly known as Hoya hearts, is a Hoya species native to Southeast Asia. Arthur Francis George Kerr, an Irish physician and botanist. Because the thick leaves are heart-shaped, the plant is also known as "lucky-heart."   Care Guide Origin South...

Background Anadendron or later known as Anadendrum are genera with 15 accepted species. First published in 1864 Annales Musei a Latin-Dutch botanical book. Anadendrum cordatum was documented by H. W. Schott, a well-known Austrian botanist, with the help of P. W. Khortals, a Dutch...

Background Hoya lacunosa is flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family native ranging from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Borneo, and Sumatera. It is a favourite climbing Hoya very easy to maintain as a house plant. Feature the hairy white umbel of flowers with sweet smelling scent....

Background Hoya macrophylla is species of flowering plants in the Apocynaceae family which is the same as of Hoya latifolia. A species with climbing habit in its natural habitat, can be found vining on the tall trees top in search for the brighter sun....

Background True ant-garden species exhibit two behavioral traits (CORBARA & al. 1999). A retrieval behavior regard to the seeds of epiphytic plants and the ability to construct a humus-rich arboreal carton nest, in this chase of the unique Hoya mitrata.Described by Kerr (1940) in...

Background Sulawesi's Hoya occultata S. Rahayu & Rodda sp. nova (Apocynaceae) has been described recently. It is the second described Hoya species from Sulawesi with a shrubby habit. It resembles H. irisiae, a shrubby species native to the Philippines with similar white-yellow flowers and...

Background Hoya pubicalyx is a flowering plants from the dogbane family Apocynaceae which can be found in natural habitat at Philippines region. Nowadays, there are so many cultivars of H. pubicalyx available in the market with varieties of flowers colors with different trade name....

Background Hoya ranauensis is an easy-grower flowering plants of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. This Hoya had been known in the trade for two decades as Hoya sp. Poring Hot Springs. It is named after the district in Borneo's Eastern Sabah where it was discovered...

Background Hoya scortechinii is a flowering plants species belongs to the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It can be found living in natural habitat at Borneo, Malaya, Sumatera, Thailand. It has reflexed white corolla to beautiful pink apices, living mostly on the shade and humid parts...

Background Hoya sigillatis is a flowering plants species belongs to the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It can be found living in natural habitat at Borneo island. It is part of Acanthostemma section of Hoya which is thought up of the words Acantho, which means "thorny,"...

Background Hoya R.Br. is the largest genus in the Apocynaceae, with an estimated 350–450 species (Rodda, 2015). Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and tropical and subtropical South Asia are the Hoya's most species-rich regions. With a few shrubby species, the plants are typically climbers with an...

Background Hoya sulawesiana belong to Acanthostemma section, which means it has curly-back (revolute) corolla lobes. Most part of the leaves are covered with white latex. There are 2 types locality of Hoya sulawesiana. The first type shape of its leaf is lanceolate and the...

Background Hoya verticillata is a vining epiphyte of flowering plants in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Naturally can be found living in the rainforest jungle at Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is.,...

Background Hoya vitellina is a vining epiphyte of flowering plants in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Naturally can be found living in the rainforest jungle in Java and Borneo islands. If exposed to frost, the foliage of H. vitellina will burn and drop. It can...

Background Phlegmariurus phlegmaria, also known as coarse tassel fern or common tassel fern, is an epiphytic species native to rainforests in Madagascar, some Indian Ocean islands, Asia, Australasia, and many Pacific Islands. An epiphytic herbaceous ferns that belongs to Lycopodiaceae family, type of fir...

Background Phlegmariurus squarrosus is a lycophyte in the Lycopodiaceae family. The genus Phlegmariurus is recognized in the 2016 Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification, but not in other classifications, which include the genus in Huperzia and this species as Huperzia squarrosa. It can be found in...