The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa are available in a few different colors; my clone was sold as purple. I no longer keep this plant but would like to give it another try someday, experimenting with some looser growing mediums and watering much less. The flowers are cute and a well grown plant is very nice to see.
The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa rank among the worst smelling blooms of the genus, but we won’t hold that against them!
I finally got this plant to grow well enough for me to get it to flower in February of 2019. I strongly suspect that I simply could not keep this plant warm enough to grow well. I also think that I was using a mix that held too much water and was not airy enough. If I still had the plant I would experiment with other growing media.
I received Hoya myrmecopa in the summer of 2017 from AH Hoyas in Thailand as a small plant rooted in coconut husk. It never did very well for me developing root rot on several occasions necessitating me have to start it over a number of times.
Hoya myrmecopa is found growing in holes in trunks and branches of trees that are also frequently occupied by ants and that is where it obtained its name.
Sulawesi is an island governed by Indonesia; it used to be called Celebes. Back in the day when I was an aquarist I kept the Celebes Rainbow fish, so doing research for this plant was kind of like going home and brought back a lot of memories of my fishkeeping days.
I have now flowered in excess of 260 different Hoya species and cultivars. Someday I will try to get an exact count, but there is at least 260 and there are probably many more. Anyhow, sometimes I have had so many different ones flower that I somehow miss one of them and they never have made it to this site. I usually only discover it by accident and this is the case with Hoya myrmecopa.
I have finally found a Hoya that has nearly black leaves when the first emerge, and strangely enough it is not the plant called H. sp. Black Leaves! It is a plant called Hoya sp. CoXanh 001; I have no idea yet where this plant is from, or what CoXanh is all about. Hopefully I will flower it soon, and find out more about it. Here is a photo of the leaves from this morning:
Hoya blashernaezii ssp siariae flowers only last for a day so I thought I would introduce it to another Hoya. Yellow, Red, and Green all the colors on a traffic light!
I have been keeping Hoya sp. Bangkok Red now for about 15 years. It is one of the easiest of all Hoyas to grow and will flower most of the summer right on the windowsill.
