Hoya fungii Merr. has soft, dark green, almost round, wonderfully glossy leaves. The leaves are larger than those of the related H. carnosa and are covered with short hairs on both sides of the leaf. Newly formed leaves are bronze-green in colour. The dark green veins are clearly visible. In addition to the beautiful foliage, H. fungii also forms beautiful spherical umbels with up to 60 individual flowers per umbel. The individual flowers are very similar in appearance to H. carnosa, but larger and hairier. They have almost twice as many individual flowers in the umbel as H. carnosa. The colour of the flowers varies from pure white to dull pink on flowering, rarely in a darker rose/pink, depending on temperature and other environmental factors.
The genus was named in Modern Latin in honor of English gardener and botanist Thomas Hoy (c. 1750-1822).
Hoya fungi
Hoya fungii comes in a ⌀ 6 cm pot and is ca. 10 cm tall
