Hoya Mistie was given to me as a small rooted cutting in May of this year by Mary Hammond. I want to thank her for thinking of me and letting me have a crack at growing this plant out and trying to flower it.

I finally got the chance to post these photo of the buds and flowers from one of the best of the easy to grow Hoyas. This plant has now been with me for over 10 years, when so many others have fallen by the wayside, this one has stood the test of time.

I imported this Hoya from Indonesia in late spring; it was quite an ordeal, but more on that later. Hoya stenakei is the only Hoya that I have seen that has highly pubescent new leaves that fade and become completely glabrous when the leaf matures. Hoya stenakei is the missing link to the Macgillivrayi Group of Hoyas! Here are the beautiful new leaves of the species:

I think that these two species make for a very striking couple!

Definitely my favorite personal Hoya discovery of 2022; this plant has literally not stopped flowering for months!

The same day I took this Hoya flower comparison photo, I threw out the imperialis plant that produced the flower. It was the worst H. imperialis plant that I had ever grown, and I believed that it flowered as an act of desperation to try to save itself before dying; it did not work!

I had always believed that the flowers of Hoya vangviengiensis and H. carnosa were about the same size, but here you can clearly see that H. vangviengiensis are significantly bigger.

It is kind of hard to believe that for five years I tried everything in the book to get H. vangviengiensis to flower and now it flowered twice over the summer. Maybe this one just needs to get to a certain age to bloom?

I caught this photo of the un-reflexed blooms of Hoya cf. palawanica back in July, but just found the time to post it here. These flowers were produced in the summer greenhouse.

Hoya vitiensis Yellow is quite a striking plant and I would have appreciated it far more if I hadn’t been so disappointed that it was not the Hoya desvoeuxensis. It is a lovely plant that will give you all of the challenge that you are looking for in blooming a Hoya. It is definitely worth adding to the collection especially if you don’t have the mauve colored clone.