Hoya surisana was named after Surisa Somadee, Thai Hoya expert and grower. Below the flowers of Hoya surisana:

Hoya surisana was found growing in a pine forest on a steep slope. It was rooted in the ground with long vines ascending the trees nearby.

Hoya surisana was first vouchered in cultivation in August of 2019 at the Bogor Botanic Garden. It was first collected by Andarias Sambokaraeng in Indonesia, Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Mamasa, Pebassian, Makalangkan mountain, ca 500 m elevation. Below the buds of Hoya surisana:

My Hoya Bella Anneke Buis, otherwise known as Hoya Bella Albomarginata looks pretty healthy from this picture, but has been dropping quite a few leaves for some time. Many leaves started to get shriveled looking, which is a sure sign off root rot. I took it out of the pot, and sure enough that was what was going on. I lose very few plants to root rot these days, but sadly this was one of them. Here is a photo before I chopped it up into cuttings to restart it.

I would estimate that 90% of the time Hoya patella has only one flower per peduncle, but occasionally it gets two. This is one of those times.

I think that I have featured these two together before, but here is a new photo of the two plants flowering at the same time. It doesn’t get much better than this!

The flowers opened on the Hoya undulata that I put up here about a week ago. Here they are in all their glory:

I have kept this one for a long time, but after up-potting this one in the spring, it has become the nicest plant. It makes me happy just looking at it!

Even with no flowers Hoya stenaokei ‘Dark Clone’ makes a fantastic specimen.

This plant was started over about a year ago, and will flower for the first time since the restart in the next couple of weeks. I have always loved the shiny, highly, glossy leaves on this one that is why I still keep it around.