I finally have this plant back where it continues to be mysteriously pollinated in the grow tent. See It below in its full glory:

Hoya australis ssp. Oramicola is one of the Hoyas that lives quite happily on a window sill upstairs. I use a tiny t-5 strip light to supplement its meager light supply as the window has a large overhang that shields it from all sun.

It will take a long time to get this one untangled out of the tent where it has wrapped itself around almost everything. It is now flowering on two different peduncles.

Hoya sp. Black Leaves, which is really some type of verticillata is budding up on multiple peduncles and is flowering on the windowsill in the regular house. I really like this Hoya.

The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa are available in a few different colors; my clone was sold as purple. I no longer keep this plant but would like to give it another try someday, experimenting with some looser growing mediums and watering much less. The flowers are cute and a well grown plant is very nice to see.

The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa rank among the worst smelling blooms of the genus, but we won’t hold that against them!

I finally got this plant to grow well enough for me to get it to flower in February of 2019. I strongly suspect that I simply could not keep this plant warm enough to grow well. I also think that I was using a mix that held too much water and was not airy enough. If I still had the plant I would experiment with other growing media.

I received Hoya myrmecopa in the summer of 2017 from AH Hoyas in Thailand as a small plant rooted in coconut husk. It never did very well for me developing root rot on several occasions necessitating me have to start it over a number of times.

Hoya myrmecopa is found growing in holes in trunks and branches of trees that are also frequently occupied by ants and that is where it obtained its name.

Sulawesi is an island governed by Indonesia; it used to be called Celebes. Back in the day when I was an aquarist I kept the Celebes Rainbow fish, so doing research for this plant was kind of like going home and brought back a lot of memories of my fishkeeping days.