This photo will give you a good idea of the size of a Hoya griffithii LT 08-026 Flower. I should also mention again that these flowers just like the regular griffithii pack a fragrance wallop!

Here are a couple of photos showing the entire plant:

Below the flowers of the first Hoya griffithii IML -1856 that I received from David Liddle’s Nursery in Australia. I should also say that the leaves on this original griffithii were twice the size of the leaves on LT 08-026.

Below the flowers of Hoya griffithii LT 08-026:

I was blown away by the extremely fragrant apple-green colored flowers on Hoya griffithii LT 08-026. I was expecting yellow flowers so the green flowers were quite a surprise. I found out that these green flowers fade to yellow just before falling off.

Here are the freshly opened blooms:

Here are the flowers a couple of days before they start falling off:

The plant grew steadily and within a few months I transplanted it into a 5 inch clear orchid pot. I was very excited to see a peduncle and developing buds after only 9 months.

I received Hoya griffithii LT 08-026 as a rooted cutting from my good friend Julie Kennedy from the UK in May of last year (2024). She in turn had received it a few years earlier from Torill Nyhuus from Sweden. I was very excited to grow what I thought was a yellow flowered clone of Hoya griffithii. The plant arrived in very good shape despite spending a long time in the post. I potted it up in a 7oz clear plastic cup using coconut husk as a substrate.

Hoya griffithii is a cool grower that is fairly widely spread in India (Assam, Himalayas), China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan), Laos (Louang Namtha province), Vietnam (Dien Bien and Quang Ninh provinces), and Thailand.

The accession number for Hoya griffithii LT 08-026 was used by Lao Trip, a collector who I believe acquired this plant in 2008.

Hoya griffithii LT 08-026 was collected in Laos near Louang Nam Tha, which is a town that lies just that lies just 10-12 miles from the Chinese Border.

Just a couple more photos of Hoya carmelae before we move on to something else. I think I must have gotten my first cutting of this species back around 2014, which I promptly killed. This is one of so many plants that languished in a peat-based potting mix, but took off and thrived in coco husk chips. I think that you can say that I produced this massive specimen in about three years.