Hoya maxima VIPP 7-15 It’s a little slower to

It’s a little slower to grow than the typical form

Ideal for bonsai with its flexible branches

The foliage is rather stiff with tiny marginal spines and an apiculate tip

The center of the upright rosette of very stiff mottled green leaves forms an overlapping

Hoya maxima VIPP 7-15 It’s a little slower toA myrmecophyte from SE Asia whose claim to fame are the flat, shingle like leaves that overlap each other as they cling and climb the trunks and branches of trees. Hoya maxima is reminiscent of the shell leaved species of the genus, Dischidia but differs in that only one leaf per node survives. The second leaf aborts and the surviving leaf folds over the stem creating a dome like space where ants nest. The ants provide nutrients for the plant while