Hoya Verticillata (Parasitica Splash) – Carla’s Hoya Haven

Hoya parasitica is one of many plants recently renamed Hoya verticillata. There seems to be a growing number of Hoya verticillatas so to keep them straight I’ll keep the old name or I’m not going to know which H. verticillata I’m talking about. I have two of them now and they look nothing alike. I purchased this particular specimen from Land of Alice in my Fifth Hoya Haul from early May.

I was trying to make a hoop out of Super Trellis hexes and added a center row for stability. It was still wobbly. In the end I stabilized the structure with a plant stake in the back.

I keep this plant in a west facing window with a sheer. No tree outside for added shade so it is a fairly sunny window especially in the summer. This plant seems to be easy to grow even when I forget to water it and follow up with a bit of overwatering. It has grown more leaves and larger leaves in the time I’ve had it.

With all that splashiness H. verticillata (parasitica splash) is a very attractive plant to grow and an excellent plant for a sunny window.

There’s a nice little chart on Hoya verticillata on A Hoya Study Corner by SC Plants on Facebook. Until mine flowers I can’t be sure where mine fits into the verticillata complex. Maybe when it flowers I’ll have a better idea. There’s just too much information out there on plants that don’t look like mine. I think it was a mistake to lump so many together under one species. That’s just my opinion which doesn’t count for diddly in the botany world.

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