Here is a photo of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 showing what the plant looks like in its entirety.

The flowers of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 are at least 50% bigger than on any of the other H. vitiensis that I have grown. The blooms are almost 3 cm point to point.

The leaves on Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 have an extremely hard and glossy surface to them. If they didn’t have the slight tendency towards chlorosis, they would be quite spectacular to look at.

The only problem I had with the cultivation of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 is that there was a tendency for some of the leaves to get a bit chlorotic, whether that has to do with coconut husk as the substrate, I am unsure. It was not however an impediment to blooming it. The most amazing thing about the flowers are how long lasting they are. Here is a photo of the bloom on day sixteen, it finally began to close up on the seventeenth day after opening!! One of the longest lasting flowers that I have ever had on a Hoya.

I was a little apprehensive about growing this plant as I have had a tricky time growing the regular mauve flowered vitiensis and the yellow flowered one in the past. I rooted it in coconut husk, and it was off to the races. This plant was far more vigorous than the ones I had grown before, and was difficult to keep it in check. It required several up-pottings, and constant work keeping its vines from covering and tangling other plants in the grow tent. It produced a peduncle and began to bud up for the first time nine months after starting it. Sadly all the buds but one blasted the first go around.

I know very little about this Hoya other than Nathalie Simonsson discovered it in Fiji in 2005. It came to me as a rooted cutting from Julie Kennedy in May of 2024. Here is a teaser photo, and I will discuss its cultivation starting tomorrow.

I’m trying to decide what to do with this one. It drops sticky nectar covered flowers all over the floor, and it really needs to be started over as a hanging basket, but I just keep procrastinating and it stays as it is.

I have two small H. imperialis rather than one large one in my collection, and the plants seem to alternate flowering. As soon as one is finished, the other one puts on a display. Here is a quick photo from this morning:

This crop of flowers is the most that I have had at one time on Hoya medusa. Still not much of a plant, but I’m not giving up on it. From this morning:

This plant has now gotten huge; It is my favorite of all the different Hoya Bella that I have cultivated over the years. I was chastised for mispronouncing the name in a YouTube comment the other day, but nothing can take away from my enjoyment of the plant.