Hoya kerrii Craib is a plant in the Apocynaceae family, order Gentianales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Hoya kerrii Craib

Hoya kerrii Craib

Hoya kerrii Craib is a climbing plant with heart-shaped thick leaves that produces lightly scented or unscented red to brown nectar balls.

Family
Genus
Hoya
Order
Gentianales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Hoya kerrii Craib

Hoya kerrii Craib is a climbing plant that can reach up to 4 meters (around 13 feet) in height. Its stems grow to 7 millimeters in diameter. The leaves of this plant are 6 centimeters wide and 5 millimeters thick. On mature, adult plants, inflorescences grow to 5 centimeters in diameter, and each inflorescence can hold up to 25 flowers. The plant produces small nectar balls that range in color from red to brown, and its flowers have only a faint scent, or no scent at all.

Photo: (c) 澎湖小雲雀, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Gentianales Apocynaceae Hoya

More from Apocynaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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