Rimba Getting to Know Hoya Brunei.
Text GRACE CHOY
In 2011, a new Hoya species was found in Tutong,
Brunei Darussalam. For those who are less familiar with
This is because it exists in many shapes and colours. In addition,
Hoya is among the types of plant that are the easiest to care for.
This new species in Brunei is an important discovery because the diversity of Hoya in the islands of Borneo is still difficult to estimate. This is because many areas in Borneo have not been explored, only 27 species can be found throughout Peninsular Malaysia, which has been far more thoroughly explored.
The discovery of this new species in Brunei, Hoya wongii, comes at just the right time because Hoya is now among the main choices of growers. And although its botanical name is somewhat complicated to pronounce, such as Hoya purpureofusca
or Hoya pubicalyx, caring for it is much easier.
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Hoya verticillata (Vahl) Don. Hoya is a type of hardy plant. The most suitable is a humidity of 50 per cent. Hoya can be found in all the colours of the rainbow, except blue and black. Among the colours of Hoya flowers are orange, green, pink, yellow and red, and some even have several different colours.
Hoya can grow well indoors, under colours that are quite beautiful when it flowers.
Hoya, and recently launched a range of natural beauty oil products under the Goop brand that use Hoya as the main ingredient. Goop is a lifestyle blog introduced by that actress in 2008.
It is understood that this Paltrow product is the one that
uses oil from Hoya flowers.
baked, and the whole of this plant can be used to treat skin disease and insect bites. In fact, there are now new studies proving that Hoya is able to filter the contents of the air naturally. However, no matter how certain it is, Hoya is the best choice as a plant in
Hoya coronaria Blume.
Hoya wongii Rodda etal
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2015 Mar-Apr, pages 50-53. Printed in Bahasa Melayu and translated into English for this site; text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected.
