Hoya onychoides A truly superb Australian species! It has large but not unattractive leaves - new growth can be a striking bronze colour - not flattered by this photograph and  extremely large and colourful flowers. Each individual flower in this picture was about 1 3/8 inches (35mm) across. The fragrance is spicy, but not particularly strong.

This plant was acquired incorrectly named as the closely allied species H. macgillivrayi which has similar, but flatter, flowers. A look back at Hoya literature indicates that this plant was often mistaken for H. macgillivrayi and there also appears to have been some confusion between these two plants and H. megalaster.

Photograph by : John Ellis

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