Hoya buotii Hoya halconensis White Wax Flower

16/02/2010

Hoya buotii Kloppenburg 2002, also named Hoya halconensis Schlechter ex Kloppenburg is an outstanding white or light yellow Hoya wax flower, native to the Philippines.



D. Kloppenburg named the Hoya buotii species in honour to the Philippine botanist Inocentio Buot Jr. Hoya buotii is an easy to handle plant, which loves a sunny place and even young plants are flowering. This Hoya wax flower beauty emits a nice, but not very strong, vanilla-like fragrance. Flowers are born in umbels of up to about 30 single flowers.

Hoya buotii Kloppenburg 2002
Flower Photography © Orchids Flowers.com
Image: Hoya buotii Kloppenburg, Hoya halconensis Schlechter ex Kloppenburg
Photographer: Kitisak “Nat” Jaidee


Flower Photography © Orchids Flowers.com
Image: Hoya buotii Kloppenburg, Hoya halconensis Schlechter ex Kloppenburg
Photographer: Kitisak “Nat” Jaidee

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