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Hoya kerrii

Species of plant

Summary

Species of plant

  • Hoya obovata var. kerrii (Craib) Costantin

Hoya kerrii is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Southeast Asia. Its eponymous collector is Arthur Francis George Kerr, Irish physician and botanist.

As the thick leaves are heart-shaped, the plant is sometimes named "lucky-heart". In Europe, it is sold for Saint Valentine's Day.

Its origin area is South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the Indonesian island of Java.

Description

Hoya kerrii is a climbing plant that can grow up to 4 meters high (around 13 feet). Stems have a diameter of 7 mm. The leaves are 6 cm wide, 5 mm thick. Adult plants show inflorescences of 5 cm diameter and up to 25 flowers. They produce small balls of nectar, coloured red to brown. They smell only faintly or not at all.

Taxonomy

A specimen was collected by Arthur Francis George Kerr in 1910 or 1911 in the Doi Suthep mountains west of Chiang Mai (Northern Thailand) at an altitude of 390 m above sea level. It was transplanted to Kew Gardens where it flowered in August 1911, and the species was first described by William Grant Craib from that plant and the wild collections in 1911.

File:Small Hoya kerrii D1302a.jpg|Young plant, unchanged over 2 years File:Small Hoya kerrii D1409.jpg|After 20 months of growth

References

References

  1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
  2. William Grant Craib. (1911). "Contributions to the Flora of Siam (continued)". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information.
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