Tomorrow we finish up with this Hoya, but for now here is a shot of the beautiful foliage of Hoya sp. NS05-240:

Hoya sp. NS05-240 is one of the many Hoyas in the section called Acanthostemma.  Below is a nice close up of the flowers:

Here are a couple of photos of Hoya sp. NS05-240 showing the plant in its entirety.  Notice how closely it resembles Hoya DS-70 except for the length of the peduncles and size of the flower heads.

Hoya sp. NS05-240 was discovered in 2005 by Nathalie Simonsson during her travels.  I am unsure where this plant is endemic, and if any of you out there know the answer, please contact me through YouTube.

Finally after five to six years of waiting the flowers of Hoya sp. NS05-240:

I was completely taken by surprise at how long the peduncles on this Hoya were.  I think that they are among the longest in the Hoya world; below you can see that the peduncle itself is 9.5 inches long.  Add in the length of the pedicels and your talking almost 11 inches!

I was thrilled to finally see good growth and an actual plant materializing out of the tiny cuttings that I was forced to use this go around with this tough to grow little Hoya.  After about two years of growth, I was finally rewarded with my first peduncle, and I was really thrilled!

After 3 or 4 years of fiddling with this plant, I finally turned the corner with it when I started it over using a series of net pots where I could actually see what I was doing as far as watering the plant.

I started this cutting over many times during the first 3 years that I owned this plant, and invariably I would rot the roots off.  It was just a very difficult Hoya to get growing.  I would just start to see some new growth, and then it would just sit there for months doing nothing.  The leaves looked like those on Hoya DS-70 and I expected it to be easy like that plant and nothing could be further from the truth!

We are moving from one difficult to flower Hoya in Hoya sp. UT-240 right into another in Hoya sp. NS05-240.  I know that I received this Hoya as a cutting from Ric Morier probably in 2013, or 2014.  Below the buds of Hoya sp. NS05-240: