I just spent the morning untangling vines and cleaning inside of of one of my large grow tents.  It was quite and ordeal, but worth it in the long run.  Anyway it allowed be to photograph some buried Hoya, and these are the photos over the next few days. Hoya oblongacutifolia had thrown out vines everywhere and is covered with peduncles and flowers.  Here are a couple of the new pictures:

This is rare at least for me – two flowers on the same peduncle on Hoya patella ‘White’.  I’ve had very few of these in my years of growing the pink variety and never before on the white.

Although the flowers are similar to many other Hoyas, Hoya sp. Black Leaves EPC-301 has its own charms with beautiful, shiny, speckled, leaves and an outstanding scent. If you don’t own another plant with the same type of flowers, I can recommend picking one of these up.  It flowers in two years from cutting and will produce a very nice specimen plant in a short time.

While the flowers may be similar to many other Hoyas, they are still quite beautiful!

I received Hoya sp. Black Leaves EPC-301  in a trade from a collector in North Carolina in the summer of 2015 and flowered it in the summer of 2017.  The plant grew in my regular mix and I would put the difficulty level with 1 being dead easy, and 10 being impossible at a 4.

Just like most of these Hoyas with similar flowers, Hoya sp. Black Leaves EPC-301 is highly perfumed and smells quite beautiful!

There are probably at least a dozen Hoyas that have flowers that to my eyes are almost identical to these. I’m sure that most of these plants are not new species and should be lumped together in some sort of way.

Hoya sp. Black Leaves EPC-301 was found in Prachinburi Provence in Thailand. It has the Epiphytica accession number, and unfortunately that is all I know about it.  Below the buds of the plant:

As you can see below, the leaves are far from black.  The only thing I can suppose is that new growth when grown in extremely bright light, may come in a very dark color.  I for one have not seen it.

I have a number of small Hoya lockii plants as insurance against the loss of this harder than expected plant to grow.  This is the finest of the lot; note how many flowers are on this small six inch tall plant, which is grown in pure sphagnum.