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Waxflower or common hoya
Hoya australis
About
Hoya australis, commonly known as waxflower or common hoya, is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae or dogbane family and is native to northern and eastern Australia, Papuasia and Melanesia. It is a succulent vine or subshrub with fleshy or leathery, elliptic, oblong, egg-shaped or more or less round leaves, racemes of fleshy, cream-coloured and red flowers, and spindle-shaped follicles. It is a popular garden plant, noted for its fragrant flowers.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Hoya australis
- Slug
- hoya-australis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Hoya
- Species
- australis
- Wikidata QID
- Q311190
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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