I have to say that Hoya celata flowering in the regular house with no added lighting or humidity does my heart good.  After waiting so long for this Hoya, all the way back to when it was called Hoya pubicalyx White Dragon, it is great to finally have a mature specimen that flowers often.  I don’t know if you can see it in the photo, but there is a hint of pink in the flowers that I have not seen before.  Probably the dark conditions under which it bloomed caused this color variation.

It will never be able to live in the regular house, but if you are looking for an exceptionally challenging Hoya with great flowers, and a divine fragrance, you need look no further than Hoya maxima Yellow Corona.

Here is a macro shot of Hoya maxima Yellow Corona:

They are really just great big teddy bears that have one of the most divine fragrances in the Hoya world.

My mount has both Hoya maxima Yellow Corona and Hoya maxima Red Corona intertwined so every time buds formed on various peduncles I was hoping that I was going to get the yellow flowers, but each time it was the red that showed up. I was looking for the yellow so that I could say that I had flowered both clones and finally it happened!

Hoya maxima Yellow Corona is growing in a fully functioning ecosystem that is comprised of mosses, ferns, grasses, fungi and even some very tiny insects.  It is an extremely large mount that weighs over 20 pounds wet, and it is pretty wet most of the time. Below the mount from this past summer:

Here are the two clones together and except for the coronal coloration, they are virtually the same.

If you’ve read about my flowering of Hoya maxima Red Corona, you know about all of the travails that I have faced over the years trying to flower an imbricate Hoya.  When I describe all of the expense and difficulties, I am really talking about this particular plant that you see below that I first bought from Gardino’s back in 2014.  The Red variety took less than 18 months to flower; the yellow took 5 years!

I’ve been continually blessed over the past few months with flowering Hoyas that I thought I might never flower. Hoya maxima Yellow Corona definitely falls into that category.

I guess that I’ve run out of things to say about this wonderful Hoya. If you are looking for a spectacular, long-peduncled, glossy-leaved, far from run of the mill, Hoya, I think that Hoya bicknellii will fit your needs very nicely.

Hoya bicknellii is so darned photogenic that I have to show off a couple more of the macro shots that I took of her flowers!