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Hoya coronaria

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Blume

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental with cultivars

Common Names

• Aroy Kilampahan (Java)
• Akar Setebal (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Java
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Pulau
• Sarawak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Riverbanks
• coastal
• montane areas
• mangroves
• forest
• swamp forest
• lowland forest.

Flowering Times

• All year (Java)

Fruiting Times

Tall pubescent twining hemi-epiphytic shrub with umbels of night-scented 35mm wide waxy flowers, creamy-yellow to greenish white with five crimson spots, aging pink, hirsute, velvety calyx, waxy white corolla becoming spotted pink aging pink all over to 35mm across, follicles to 250mm long, coriaceous leaves glabrous above, velvety beneath with revolute margins to 100mm x 50mm

Fruits used as stomach medicine

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• JDH
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• FS
• Botanicus
• FOMP
• P. Chai
• GBS
• Kew