While the American botanist Ted Green named the epiphytic growing Hoya deykeae Green 2000 he made a mistake with the Latin grammar and named the tropical wax flower Hoya deykei, this has been corrected by him later on, but both names aren´t even acceped by IPNI (International Plant Name Index), Tropicos or Kew Monocot List. Most likely Hoya deykei - Hoya deykeae, with its beautiful heart-shaped leaves, is native to the Philippines. Flower are grouped in clusters of up to 30 flowers with a size of just about 1,5 cm in diameter. Flowers are highly fragrant and exhaling a very pleasant musk-like scent. Hoya deykei - Hoya deykeae is considered as an easy to grow plant and is suitable to be cultivated indoors as well.

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Image:Hoya deykei - Hoya deykeae
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Hoya archboldiana

Hoya bella

Hoya benguetensis

Hoya blashernaezii

Hoya brevialata

Hoya camphorifolia

Hoya carnosa white

Hoya chlorantha

Hoya compacta

Hoya cumingiana

Hoya deykei – Hoya deykeae

Hoya elliptica

Hoya erythrostemma

Hoya excavata

Hoya finlaysonii

Hoya fraterna

Hoya globulifera

Hoya gracilis

Hoya halconensis

Hoya imperialis

Hoya incrassata

Hoya kenejiana

Hoya kerrii

Hoya lacunosa

Hoya lasiantha

Hoya lobbii

Hoya macgillivrayi

Hoya megalaster

Hoya meliflua

Hoya mindorensis

Hoya multiflora

Hoya naumannii

Hoya neoebudica

Hoya obscura

Hoya parasitica

Hoya praetorii

Hoya pubicalyx Black Dragon

Hoya retusa

Hoya vitellina

Hoya waymaniae

Red Hoya mindorensis