Hoya - types and varieties, home care

Hoya belongs to the genus of evergreen tropical shrubs, or vines. Homeland are Asia, Polynesia, the western coast of Australia. Some species of hoya are considered greenhouses and houseplants. In nature, hoya reaches 10 m in length. At home, it is smaller, but some species can reach 5 m.

Growing Features

In the middle lane, a plant is grown mainly at home, but in the summer it can be transplanted into the street. When choosing a landing site, avoid areas where direct sunlight is incident. At home, it can grow in the shade, but requires a lot of light for flowering.

Home plant

The types of home hoya are striking in their diversity. They all have a smell. Some are stronger, some are slightly pronounced. So it is with forms. There are plants that need support, and they will move along it in the right direction. Some species can be used as an independent bush. Several varieties are used as ampelous.

Species of plants with beautiful leaves

Perhaps, all types of hoya possess beautiful leaves. Home plants can have three-colored foliage, glossy, curled. By their unusualness and beauty, several plants are distinguished:

• Kerry. It has unusual heart-shaped leaflets;
• hoya variegate. Cream-trimmed leaflets;
• fleshy - the most common hoya among gardeners. The leaves are glossy, often speckled. Big and really fleshy.

Hoya Lakunoza

All hoyas are beautiful in their own way. They braid well the substituted form. It should be remembered that only young shoots of the plant can be directed. Then they harden and no longer give in to the direction of growth. If the growth of such a plant is left to chance, then the shoots will crawl into any gap found near the flower pot.

Hoya: types, descriptions

The most common varieties of hoya:

• Hoya Kurtisi, or snowy. The plant really seems to be covered with snow. It has small fleshy leaves with specks of silver color. Flowers on a short stalk, large enough, have a brown tint.
• Hoya Tsangi has small curved leaves. The flowers are yellow with a bright red middle. They have an interesting smell, they smell like butter with honey. Grown in cool, shade.
• Hoya Meliflua is growing very fast. It can reach 3 m even with home growing. This variety requires frequent pruning for proper growth. The leaves are thick, strong. May vary in size. The flowers are pink with a strong odor.
• Hoya Lobby reaches a height of 1 m. Leaves are strong with small splashes. Red flowers with a white center. Their smell is sweet and sweet. It blooms for about 10 days.
• Hoya Australis Lisa is one of the hybrids. The stems are long and heavy, so you need support. The leaves are solid, green along the edge, and yellow in the middle. When the plant is very young, the leaves may be burgundy. It blooms for about a week, pleasing the eye with pale pink buds.
• Hoya Lakunosa Eskimo is an ampel plant variety. The leaves are slightly concave, the inflorescences hang on the legs of a reddish color. The flowers themselves are white, sometimes with a touch of cocoa. It has one feature: it smells of cloves during the day, and incense at night. Flowering occurs at the end of spring. This hoya grows well only under artificial lighting. As a source, even fluorescent lamps are suitable.
• Hoya Linearis - a plant for growing in a pot. It should be wide, as the liana grows rapidly in breadth. Branches hanging down are densely covered with leaves. Inflorescences are pale pink. Good for hanging on terraces in summer. The length of drooping shoots can reach 2-3 m, so you need to remember about pruning.
• Hoya Macrofill is growing well in the house. The leaves are large up to 15 cm dark green with yellow spots. Rises quickly on a vertical support. Inflorescences of pink color in the form of stars. The smell is sweet, most felt in the evening.
• Hoya Rangsan can be grown as a vine or as a bush. By cropping, you can form the desired shape. The flowers are small, pale pink. It blooms only in the presence of bright sunlight.
• Hoya Buotti has a curly stalk. Leaves elongated with a vein. The flowers are pale pink in the middle red. They smell like vanilla. He loves warmth and feels good in the heat. Watering is required moderate. Good and quickly takes root.
• Hoya Byakensis has bright green foliage. Liana can be grown as a climbing plant, and ampelous. The flowers are bell-shaped. They have no smell at all. Loves spraying. The earth in the pot should always be moist. With good care, it can bloom at any time of the year.
• Hoya Publicis. This variety has many hybrids. Distributed among gardeners. The leaves change color from reddish to green with silver spots. The flowers are bunk, have a red color.
• Hoya Lazianta, or Woolly-flowered. Grown like a bush. The flowers are bright orange, very unusual, as if with hair. If you often loosen the ground and maintain moisture, the vine can bloom almost year-round. Due to the simplicity of care, it is available for cultivation to absolute beginners. Distributes the smell of tropical fruits
• Very fast growing Hoya Sunrise. The leaves are pointed green interspersed, when kept in a brightly lit room, they turn purple. Due to the ability to change the color of the leaves, it got its name. From English it is translated as "sunny sunrise". Inflorescences are yellowish, spread a strong sweet aroma.

Hoya Kerry

• Hoya Kentiana. The main feature of this plant is that it blooms almost all year round. There is also a variegated Kentiana. It differs from the usual yellow center of the leaves.
• Hoya Kumingiana. While the plant is young, there are no leaves. As they grow older, brown shoots are overgrown with leaflets. In an adult plant, the leaves become thin with a matte surface. Inflorescences are white-green.
• Hoya Globulose. Leaflets oval: young glossy, matte with growth. The trunk is first covered with the edge, over time, the hairs fall off, and the trunk lignifies. Inflorescences last about two weeks. It produces a pleasant spicy aroma.
• Hoya Kaudata, or Tailed. The plant got such a name because of the tails sticking out in the center - anthers. With age, the plant becomes bicolor: reddish below, green above with dots. Requires high humidity and bright light. Roots very well.
• Hoya Elliptic is rare in gardeners. The leaves of the plant are rounded with well-marked veins. The aroma is weak, it is felt only at night. This hoyu does not need to be installed in front of the windows facing south. A window on the east or west side will do better. If the acquired hoya has been in the shade for a long time, it must be accustomed to the light gradually.
• Karnosa Tricolor is the most common vine in home cultivation. In another way it is called as fleshy. The leaves are dense, covered with a waxy coating. Inflorescences consist of 30 flowers. Droplets of nectar gather in the center. After flowering, the pedicels are not removed, since flowers will appear on them every year. Differs in original coloring of leaves.
• The minibel is a hybrid. It prefers cooler contents than all other hoyas. The flowers are larger.
• Campanulata grows in the form of a bush stretching upwards. Leaves resemble laurel. Plant height 50-60 cm. Light lime flavor. Flowers are like parachutes that open. Colors can be from white to yellow. Pretty capricious in leaving.
• Vilosa has the most shaggy leaves. Propagated by cuttings in water. Has a delicate spring aroma. Almost all hoyas have a very delicate aroma. Some, of course, have a stronger one. But one thing unites them - the smell reaches its peak in the evening or at night. In the afternoon their aroma is almost inaudible.
• Finlaysony. This variety has strong, large leaves, as if traced. The flowers fall after 24 hours. They exude a strong spicy aroma. It is braided by additional stems. It grows well on a support.
• Shepherd’s. Her leaves are concave inward, from afar they resemble drooping beans. Floral umbrellas are white with a pink tint. It blooms for a long time.
• Beautiful, or Bella. This hoya is a symbol of love, as its leaves resemble hearts. Thanks to this, it has another name - Valentina Hoya. In winter, falls into a kind of hibernation. Watering is done no more than 1 time per week. The temperature should not exceed 15-16 ° C.
• Fitch is a rather large plant. At home, blooms violently and for a long time. You can’t touch a pot with a plant during flowering. With growth, the trunk hardens, so the shape and direction should be given to young shoots. It is not recommended to keep such a plant for people with allergies. The strong smell of flowers contains allergens.
• Pachyclada is a rather large vine. It blooms from June to October. A single umbrella blooms for about a week. With age, the plant hardens, you need to direct growth while the shoots are soft. It has a strong aroma of burnt caramel. This smell is attractive to ants. It tolerates drought and heat.
• Gunung Gading - Hoya with beautiful leaves. It has a delicate perfume aroma. It is in high demand among gardeners.
• Kerry has heart shaped leaves. A little more difficult to care for than other home-made hoyas. Therefore, flowering will wait only the most persistent. Flowers emit a caramel smell. Mandatory backup, as the leaves are large and make the whole plant heavier. The flowering period is from June to October.
• Imperialis. The leaves are strong with a clearly visible vein. This variety is curly only in youth, at a venerable age, the stems bald. Blooms in large (for hoya) bell-shaped flowers. It has a very pronounced perfume aroma. A large release of sticky nectar has been noticed. Does not tolerate excess moisture. Very sensitive to lack of light. In winter, it requires artificial lighting.
• The erythrostemma has large sheets up to 10 cm. The flowers are pale pink, inside are red with hairs. Peduncles strong and short, hold up to 30 flowers in an umbrella. The leaves are covered with a fringe.
• Akuta. The variety differs from its counterparts in the rounded shape of the leaves. They are not elongated, like most hoi, but wide with a sharp tip. Their color is dark green. In inflorescence up to 50 flowers. They are also unusual: in the center of the petals bent backwards, there is a yellow-green shiny ball in the center. The flower lasts about five days. The aroma of flowering citrus.
• Mcgilleuille. The surface of large fleshy leaves is covered with random points. The main stem is strong. Young shoots are copper colored. Purple flowers look like crow's feet. Exhaust a very strong aroma.
• Retuza is a narrow-leaved plant. Due to the small and not similar to the other vines leaflets it is considered small-leaved. Leaflets form a green hat, from which inflorescences rise. The flowers are white with a red middle. Bloom mainly in spring and autumn. The flowering period is 18 days. Liana spreads the smell of citrus.

Home Care

The plants are heat-loving, they love moisture very much, but at the same time it is impossible to allow overflow, then the hoya begins to drop leaves. Watering should be done when the land has dried, but has not yet disintegrated from drought.

Support

All plants of this species love showering and leaf washing. Since the leaves are large, mostly waxy, they require purity. To prevent parasites from wounding up on them, you need to alternate spraying and rubbing.

For full bloom requires a lot of bright light. But at the same time, almost all species do not like direct sunlight. An important place for care is pruning. Depending on the variety, it is either obligatory or desirable.

Also with supports for creeping species. A timely set of trellis will help the plant grow properly, take the form that the color guide needs. It can be a direct support, figured or in the form of a ring.

It is best to propagate such plants by cuttings, since in this case the hoya takes root more quickly. But propagation by seeds is possible, a less common method, but it is also used, although it takes much more time.

Thus, hoya is a picky flower that impresses with its diversity. The main thing is to choose a suitable variety and provide it with the necessary conditions for growth and flowering.