For many of us, hoyas are those plants our grandmothers had growing on the ‘stoep’ or in a pot that hung from the dining room ceiling in a macramé pot hanger.
The genus Hoya contains between 200 and 300 different species. In addition, there are also lots of hybrids and cultivars of certain species, making it an incredibly diverse group of plants. Hoya plants go by numerous different names: wax flower, wax plant, wax creeper, wax vine, porcelain flower and Mary’s tears, to name just a few…