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Wax plants
Hoya
Hoya is a genus of over 500 species of plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, commonly known as waxflowers. Plants in the genus Hoya are mostly epiphytic or lithophytic vines, rarely subshrubs, with leathery, fleshy or succulent leaves, shortly tube-shaped or bell-shaped flowers with five horizontally spreading lobes, the flowers in umbels or racemes, and spindle-shaped or cylindrical to oval follicles containing flattened egg-shaped to oblong seeds.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
wax plant
speciesHoya carnosa
common waxflower
speciesHoya australis
Hoya pubicalyx
speciesHoya pubicalyx
Heart Hoya
speciesHoya kerrii
Hoya verticillata
speciesHoya verticillata
Hoya multiflora
speciesHoya multiflora
Hoya diversifolia
speciesHoya diversifolia
Hoya lacunosa
speciesHoya lacunosa
Hoya latifolia
speciesHoya latifolia
Hoya imbricata
speciesHoya imbricata
Hoya nicholsoniae
speciesHoya nicholsoniae
miniature wax plant
speciesHoya bella
Hoya imperialis
speciesHoya imperialis
Hoya linearis
speciesHoya linearis
Hoya coronaria
speciesHoya coronaria
Hoya obovata
speciesHoya obovata
Hoya cumingiana
speciesHoya cumingiana
Hoya lanceolata
speciesHoya lanceolata
Hoya wayetii
speciesHoya wayetii
Hoya wightii
speciesHoya wightii
Hoya curtisii
speciesHoya curtisii
Hoya campanulata
speciesHoya campanulata
Hoya incrassata
speciesHoya incrassata
Hoya macrophylla
speciesHoya macrophylla
Hoya obscura
speciesHoya obscura
Christmas Island Waxvine
speciesHoya aldrichii
Hoya griffithii
speciesHoya griffithii
Hoya fusca
speciesHoya fusca
Hoya retusa
speciesHoya retusa
Hoya pachyclada
speciesHoya pachyclada
Hoya buotii
speciesHoya buotii
Hoya serpens
speciesHoya serpens
Hoya densifolia
speciesHoya densifolia
Hoya mitrata
speciesHoya mitrata
Hoya longifolia
speciesHoya longifolia
Hoya coriacea
speciesHoya coriacea
Hoya globulosa
speciesHoya globulosa
Hoya erythrina
speciesHoya erythrina
Hoya meliflua
speciesHoya meliflua
Hoya macgillivrayi
speciesHoya macgillivrayi
Hoya odorata
speciesHoya odorata
Hoya archboldiana
speciesHoya archboldiana
Hoya heuschkeliana
speciesHoya heuschkeliana
Hoya acuminata
speciesHoya acuminata
Hoya pentaphlebia
speciesHoya pentaphlebia
Hoya affinis
speciesHoya affinis
Hoya mindorensis
speciesHoya mindorensis
Hoya globulifera
speciesHoya globulifera
Hoya engleriana
speciesHoya engleriana
Hoya halconensis
speciesHoya halconensis
Hoya inconspicua
speciesHoya inconspicua
Hoya danumensis
speciesHoya danumensis
Hoya finlaysonii
speciesHoya finlaysonii
Hoya micrantha
speciesHoya micrantha
Hoya lyi
speciesHoya lyi
Hoya crassicaulis
speciesHoya crassicaulis
Hoya kentiana
speciesHoya kentiana
Hoya elliptica
speciesHoya elliptica
Hoya sussuela
speciesHoya sussuela
Hoya polyneura
speciesHoya polyneura
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129527.