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Hoya obscura Wax Flower

Aug 212010

The wax flower Hoya obscura Elmer ex C. M. Burton 1986 has been found
by A. D. E. Elmer in the year 1916 on the island of Luzon, Philippines.
Hoya obscura flowers are highly fragrant,
the scent is reminescent of a mixture of honey, lemon and lavender.

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Eine Antwort bis “Hoya obscura Wax Flower”

Ellen Reader sagt:

22/08/2010 um 07:47

I have been told that there is a flower that grows natural in Florida along the edges of rivers and swamps that the indigenous Indians used to make wax. The park ranger thought that it was a type of orchid but I did not see the plant myself.

Ellen Reader