Of all the plants i’ve had in my garden the Hoya might just be my very favourite – and i have two quite large plants. They may even beat my beloved poppies! (But it’s a close call) 🙂
Hoyas are also called Wax Plants or Porcelainflowers. Each flower is star shaped and they usually form perfectly hemispherical clumps of 30 to 40 or more flowers. Each flower is covered in a fuzz of tiny hairs and they often ooze nectar, forming large sweet drips that will fall to the ground if no insect is quick enough to catch them first. When forming the flowers are encased in a waxy looking outer cover of dark red-brown that slowly turns to a pink pentagon shaped tip before bursting out into this fuzzy light pink flower you see below.
It is a climbing vine and this one is on a stretch of my border fence and reaches 2 metres high by 4 metres wide (6 x 12 ft)
(Click on the pics to open in a new window and click again to see full size detail) 🙂A Perfect Star in the dead centre of three more ‘stars’.
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Cee’s Flower of the Day – December 23, 2018 – Lighted Poinsettia
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They are well named. I want one
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You may have to bring it indoors in winter…. if it ever gets down there! 😉
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🙂
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Hoyas are so beautiful. Lovely captures!
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Thank You Maria! 🙂
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Auguri di buone feste 🙂
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Molto Grazie. 🙂 🙂 ox
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It looks like a “ball” of little orchids.
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They are such incredibly complicated little flowers, like orchids i see more every time i look (closely). 😉 Thank you for the comment.
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So pretty, I actually like the intricate photo from underneath the flower too.
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It’s a masterpiece of construction under there! 🙂
I have a better photo of one i’ll post – probably next year!
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