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Hoya australis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

R. Brown ex J. Traill

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Common Hoya
• Australian Wax Plant
• Wax Plant
• Pua-hoku-hihi
• Napalht (New Hebrides)

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• N. Borneo
• S. China
• Fiji
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Vanuatu
• Wallis & Futuna

Natural Habitats

• Rainforest
• streambanks
• riverside
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (Aust)
• Mar-Apr (Philippines)
• Sep (Vanuatu)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (Vanuatu)

Twining glabrous succulent stem-rooting woody climber or epiphyte with glabrous leaves to 200mm x 60mm. Umbels or racemes of fragrant 40mm white flowers tinged pink with red or pinkish centres glabrous outside puberulous inside, lobes 5mm long, bearded corolla, slender follicle to 130mm x 12mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Mobot
• U. Haw.
• NYBG
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• FA
• Fedde
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FV
• Kew