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Hoya bella; photograph Jefferson Ferreira, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYJefferson Ferreira, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Hoya bella Hook.

Miniature wax plant

Apocynaceae · Assam, Myanmar · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

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Hoya bella, photograph Patrick Clenet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHoya bella, photograph Andiwurm, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHoya bella, photograph Clint Budd from About 15 miles North of Swansea, Wales, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHoya bella, photograph Clint Budd from About 15 miles North of Swansea, Wales, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHoya bella, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHoya bella, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 13 photographs ›

Summary

Hoya bella, the beautiful hoya, waxflower or pretty waxflower, is a species of tropical epiphyte with trailing stems, slightly succulent leaves and pendant umbels of fragrant, white and purple flowers. It is an asclepiad in the periwinkle and milkweed family, Apocynaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hoya bella", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Hoya in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Hoya in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 1 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km. 1 of the 1 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAssam, Myanmar · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“epiphytic subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Patrick Clenet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Andiwurm, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Clint Budd from About 15 miles North of Swansea, Wales, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Hoya 56 in the reference

Hoya archboldiana Apocynaceae Hoya australis Hoya australis Samoan waxplant Photo: CC0, author not stated Hoya blashernaezii Apocynaceae Hoya buotii Apocynaceae Hoya campanulata Hoya campanulata Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanHoya carnosa Hoya carnosa Porcelainflower Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)Hoya caudata Hoya caudata Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Hoya cordata Apocynaceae Hoya coronaria Hoya coronaria Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQ Hoya crassicaulis Apocynaceae Hoya cumingiana Hoya cumingiana Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Engeser Hoya curtisii Apocynaceae all 57 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Hoya lanceolata subsp. bella; Hoya paxtonii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
Hook.
Native to
Assam, Myanmar
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-221 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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