Hoya carnosa
Hoya carnosa, inflorescence
Hoya carnosa is a species of the genus of wax flowers ( Hoya ) of the subfamily of milkweed plants ( Asclepiadoideae ). It is a popular, easy to keep an indoor plant, making it one of the most famous silk plants plants.
Features
Hoya carnosa is weak succulent stems with smooth, pale gray and bald surface that wind and climb. The shoots are initially soft, but later become woody. The persistent leaves are stalked with about 1 to 1.5 cm long stalks. The leaf blade is broadly ovate to oval or heart-shaped along. The leaves are slightly succulent, fleshy with a wax-like gloss finish. The inflorescence is up to 30 - flowered, hanging or more, or erect; it is formed as stalked umbel appearance. The handle is up to about 4 cm long. The individual flowers are also stalked; here measures the handle 2 to 4 cm. The corolla has a diameter of 1.5 to 2 cm and is whitish to slightly pink. The corolla lobes are broadly oval to rounded triangular. The edge is always bent. Interior is occupied the surface with papillae. The corona is colored white. The interstaminalen corona lobes are pointed oval to lanceolate, the upper surface is convex. The outer end is colored in white, the inner end red. The flowers are fragrant and strongly but from a sticky sap, which hangs in drops on the flowers. The spindle- shaped fruits measuring 6 to 10 x 0.5 to 1.5 cm.
Geographical occurrence
This species has a very large distribution area, that of India, southern China, Japan, Taiwan up to Queensland (Australia) and the Fiji islands with everything. She is also a relatively old crop that is easy to hold. There are already numerous cultivated forms.