Hoya macrophylla
Hoya macrophylla is a vigorous, large-leaved climbing hoya from the forests of western Malesia, with fleshy to leathery leaves 14 to 25 cm long and ball-shaped umbels of 24 to 30 pale pink to violet flowers. Wild collections come from lowland riverside, swamp and dry-land forest and from monsoon forest in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is one of the easier hoyas: warm, bright filtered light, a free-draining mix and something to climb.
Where it grows wild
An epiphytic and twining climber in tropical forest. Herbarium labels from Gunung Palung in West Kalimantan record it in riverside forest, freshwater swamp forest and dry-land forest, and from Sumbawa in riverside monsoon forest. Like most hoyas it climbs toward the brighter canopy edge.
Most labels lack elevations. Collections are mainly lowland to hill forest (Gunung Palung, Mount Salak and Gede foothills in Java). A 1,600 m record from Dalat in Vietnam is probably a different or misidentified plant.
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