Hoya archboldiana C. Norman is an impressive, medium-sized houseplant with beautiful flowers. It is perfectly possible to get it to flower on the windowsill. However, the plant will only flower after two to three years. It flowers in cultivation in the summer months, from around July.The shoots are cylindrical, often up to several metres long. Older shoots become corky. They are always hairless.The large, long, glossy dark green leaves and the flowers are very similar to H. macgillivrayi.The leaves can grow up to 6cm long and 7cm wide. They are glossy dark green on the upper side and pale green on the underside. The leaves are not hairy with a clearly visible central vein. The leaf base is heart-shaped, the leaf ends pointed. The loose, hanging umbels consist of 3-4cm large, bell-shaped flowers. Around 10-20 individual flowers are in a hanging umbel. The outer tips of the petals are bent back. The colour of the corolla varies from red to pink to almost white. The secondary corolla is red.
The genus was named in Modern Latin in honor of English gardener and botanist Thomas Hoy (c. 1750-1822).
Hoya archboldiana
Hoya archboldiana is ca. 10cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 6 cm pot.
