I rarely get to see flowers on H. yresrocheri so I will make the best of it over the next couple of days.

For more than two years, Hoya inflata has never been out of flower or bud. The plant never grows or puts on a leaf, but it literally is never out of bloom. It is really hard to understand why, when I went years without being able to bring it into flower. The mysteries of the Hoya genus are never ending!

Below is a photo of Hoya sp. UT-247 that I took this morning. There are many Philippine Hoyas that are similar to this Hoya; they are extremely easy to cultivate, the colors of their flowers run the gamut of the rainbow, and they bloom easily. The drawbacks are the flowers are extremely short lived, and they drip nectar like a sieve. I can deal with the short lived flowers, but when they rain sticky nectar on everything below the blooms, it is hard to tolerate. I now almost always cut off the buds before they open; the one below got away from me before I had the chance.

It is odd that for me the variegated polyneura grew so much more easily than the regular version. It seems to be pretty much bulletproof; water it once a week, and pretty much leave it alone to do its thing. It needs no special accommodations, like grow lights or tents; just hang it in the window and let it do its thing. The Outer Variegated Hoya polyneura gets my highest recommendation as an easy to keep houseplant!

Hoya hamiltoniorum is another plant that responds to the shortening photoperiod of autumn. H. hamiltoniorum is on the right in this photo:

Along with Hoya linearis, the most reliable autumn bloomers are these two Hoyas.

The buds on the leaves that lacked chlorophyll finally opened and the answer to what they looked like was revealed. They were only slightly paler than the flowers on the rest of the plant.

One other question remained to be answered about the flowers on the variegated H. polyneura; what would the flowers look like on the portion of the plant whose leaves were totally white and lacking chlorophyll?

Finally the blooms began to open, they were beautiful and were almost identical to the blooms on the regular H. polyneura. The only drawback was that after a few days, they began to drip nectar like crazy. They behaved much like the flowers on Hoya lobbii, another member of the Hoya in the Polyneura Complex.

My combined plants in a hanging basket grew together well, and primarily because of space considerations moved it out of my basement grow tent into a window in our home, in ambient household conditions. This was done in December of 2024. The plant did not suffer because of it, continuing to put out new growth. I was unsure if this variegated version of Hoya polyneura was even capable of blooming as I had not seen photos of it in bloom before. I need not have worried; as the days started to shorten this fall (2025), it began to bud up at many different leaf nodes.