Hills' Hoya Page

Hoya Australis ssp Australis

Type: Average leaf size 5cm, going up to 7.5 cm.  Leaves more pubescent on the underside than the top.  New leaf growth is curled up fuzz with a very curious green tip.

Vining species that grows well but is very tricky to flower. Likes a bright window, mine is in the corner of my windowsill so doesn't get direct sunlight. 

When it did flower, this was all I got, and that was only for a couple of days.  I don't know what I did, but it was just around the time it started to get real cold and gloomy here, so it may just have been good old British weather that stopped it in its tracks - damn!

The flowers smell strongly of honey and have a little red tinge just behind the corona (sorry for the picture, I didn't realise the flowers were going to die on me, so this is the only one I got!)

This one I bought off Ebay last year. It was my first Hoya purchase - and I guess I haven't looked back since!
 

Hoya Australis ssp Tenuipes
 

Type: Leaf size 5-9� cm, completely glabrous.  New growth, both leaf and stem, is red (under the conditions that I grow it).

Apparently it flowers lots in spring/summer, but as I just bought it in autumn, I guess I will have to wait!

This is also a vining species that does well on a trellis - this one I bought as an "adult" allready twined round its trellis.  I bought it at my local garden centre mislabelled as carnosa.  It likes lots of water.