Hoya curtisiae
Hoya curtisiae is a spelling variant of Hoya curtisii King & Gamble (1908), the small-leaved creeping hoya with silver-flecked, pointed leaves named for Charles Curtis of Penang; GBIF carries both spellings as accepted names, which is why this entry has no records or climate of its own. It is a creeping epiphyte and rock-dweller of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Borneo and the Philippines and is one of the easier hoyas in cultivation. Grow it bright, warm and fairly dry-rooted in a shallow pot or on a mount, and expect a curtain of tiny leaves before it flowers.
Where it grows wild
Creeps flat over rock faces, tree trunks and mossy boulders in lowland and hill forest, rooting at the nodes as it goes; the Penang type locality is hill forest near the coast.
Sea level to roughly 1,000 m across its range; the Penang collections are from hill forest a few hundred metres up.
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