Hoya multiflora
The shooting star hoya is an upright, shrubby epiphyte rather than a vine, widespread from Assam and southern China through Indochina to the Philippines, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and New Guinea. Most wild records come from hill forest around 1000 m, where the measured climate is warm, humid and wet for most of the year, with mild, cooler nights in winter. It resents cold, drying out and root disturbance: give it steady warmth, humidity, bright filtered light and an airy mix that stays lightly moist.
Where it grows wild
Flora of China records it from open forests and bushlands at 500–1200 m. Kloppenburg's Philippine monograph describes it as epiphytic or pseudo-epiphytic on trees in primary forest at low and medium altitudes. It grows as a compact, upright shrub, usually under 80 cm and occasionally to about 2.5 m, with flowers held in many-flowered umbels of reflexed, dart-like blooms.
Flora of China gives 500–1200 m. The wild records span 150–2400 m with a median of about 1000 m, so most measured sites are warm hill forest rather than hot lowland.
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