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!

Here are a few macro photos of Hoya bicknellii:

It took about a year of growing Hoya bicknellii as an upright for it to develop its first peduncle. There are few things as exciting to me as getting that first set of buds. The plant flowered soon afterwards. Once again the plant was grown completely under artificial conditions.

I grew Hoya bicknellii as a hanging plant for about a year when I decided that it would work far better as a trellised upright. I transplanted it into a glazed clay pot and it has lived there ever since.

Hoya bicknellii seems very similar to Hoya benitotanii. To make things even more interesting both plants were discovered by the same person in the same geographic area of the Philippines. Below are photos of the flowers of both plants with Hoya benitoanii on top and Hoya bicknellii on the bottom.

Hoya bicknellii was published in 1999 and named after its discoverer David Bicknell.