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Hoya Pentaphlebia
 Type: Leaves around 8 cm long, with distinct veination down the leaf.
This seems to be a slow and steady plant. It roots slow, and it grows slow too, and any attempts to speed it up with fertilizer end up with weird-looking leaves, so feeding has to be very very very weak. However, I have been told that smallness is no problem when it comes to flowers, so here's hoping! There is some confusion between this plant and Hoya merillii, and pentaphlebia sold in Europe is generally thought to be merillii, so I'm not sure if I have mine labelled wrongly or not.
Hoya Polyneura
 Type: Leaves can be anything from 5 to 11 cm long depending on the plant, with distinctive dark veins that make the leaves look like fishtail, hence the name "Fishtail Hoya".
This plant can be tricky to grow. I almost lost mine over the last winter. It likes cooler places, so it's now growing in my kitchen, where it gets a small bit of morning sun. I've repotted it into a faster draining mix, with pebbles at the bottom. During the winter, it should almost be ignored as watering will cause yellowing leaves that drop off. During the growing season, it reacts well to weak fertilizer and will grow quite rapidly given the right conditions. So far, mine has produced peduncles with every new pair of leaves but they tend to shrivel and die off.
Hoya Publicalyx cv Pink Silver
 Type: Leaves can be anything from around 8 to 14cm long, often with large white splashes that turn pink with high sunlight. Produces large "bunches" of purple flowers that are 2cm wide and smell very sweetly (but not too cloying).
This plant has to be one of my best success stories. In one year it has gone from four-leaf cutting to a flowering plant, proving that it grows very fast!
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