I received a healthy Hoya tannaensis cutting late in the summer of 2022, which I quickly rooted in coconut husk chips. Other than a couple of leaves being slightly chlorotic, it was pretty straightforward and unproblematic. It developed a peduncle and began to bud up about one year after starting from a cutting.

Hoya tannaensis was discovered on Mount Yasur, Tanna Island, Vanuato. Mount Yasur is an active volcano and is 361 Meters in elevation. It is a major Vanuato tourist destination.

Hoya tannaensis was described in 2011 by Kloppenburg and Green, but was discovered by Hermon Slade around 2002. For years it was sold under the name Hoya sp. Tanna.

Tomorrow I will begin a discussion of Hoya tannaensis; Here is a teaser photo of the blooms:

Here is comparison photos of Hoya danumensis ssp. Amari and Hoya blashernaezii ssp. Siariae, which as luck would have it are both flowering at the same time.

Hoya linearis can take it wetter than I had ever imagined. All summer long it hung from a Maple tree in my back yard with a saucer, and it was subject to the rainiest summer on record. The media was almost constantly saturated, but it did not slow it down at all. Even the squirrels trying to bury peanuts in the pot didn’t faze it!

These two plants have one thing in common; they are at their absolute peak, and I doubt I will ever have these two look as good as they did on this October day.

Here is Hoya versteegii from early October basking in the sunlight of a beautiful day.

These flowers are simple, clean, fragrant, and just lovely! The buds next to it are from H. cutis-porcelana. I don’t think this plant has been out of flower one day in the past year!

It is really quite hard to beat the fragrance of this one in a humid grow tent, or in the evening on a windowsill in the house.