I second everything Mare has said about Hoya obscura. It has the best fragrance, best blooming habits and best foliage, bar none, of any hoya I have ever grown. In fact, if I could grow only one house plant, this one might be it. My other favorites are all closely related to Hoya obscura although none have its exact fragrance or unique foliage. The first is Hoya 'Sunrise', a hybrid of Hoya lacunosa x Hoya obscura. It is a very simple green, understated plant with a sweet, very pleasant fragrance (which is different from either parent). I do not find the fragrance to be as strong overall as H. obscura, but it certainly has none of the heavy, musky qualities of H. lacunosa. Next on my list is a new one that I purchased last year as Hoya nabawanensis. It reminds quite a bit of a weedy, rangy version of H. obscura but it has solid green foliage and long internodes. The fragrance is very different, however, being very sweet and spicy. Now that it is finally established, it is growing rapidly and producing lots of peduncles. I can't wait to see how it performs later this spring and summer when the weather warms up. I love Hoya lacunosa and grow several forms of it since it is such an easy, freely blooming plant. I totally agree with Mare that its fragrance is not of such a great quality although it is certainly very strong. I do not consider it to have an "obnoxious" hoya fragrance like H. nummularioides or H. heuschkeliana (i.e., it does not drive me out of the house even when several umbels are open at once) but to my nose it is very coarse and has none of the wonderful perfume-like quality of Hoya obscura.

Beautiful! Love the growth habit and the neat-looking leaves! I guess it's just one more to put on my ever-growing list of Hoya wants! lol

Hi Denise, Been meaning to get back to you -- too busy ;>) Hi QF, Funny you should ask how we grew it & about moisture, mentioning semi-Hydro. When I explained how I was growing it, a friend laughingly called it growing on the beach: in a small glass bowl/jar lined w/ pumice into which I set the small pot w/ a single cutting, w/ a wick extending from its pot into the bed of pumice. I watered to overflow several times a week: it kept it moist MOST of the time. I lost it after I time, may have accidentally let it dry out & I'd only had a small piece of it anyway. I guess FOR ME, this one was a bit more high maintenance than I managed well.

Oh, the rejection is because you can't post twice in a row. When that happens, just give it a different title (like I did with my second post to you, since I just posted right before that). I really think it's nummularioides over H. sp. DS-70. Reason being is that EA tags their hoyas a certain way, and H. sp. DS-70 is always tagged H. bilobata (scroll up and you'll see a picture of the tag it comes with). If your hoya is small-leafed, roundish, and pubescent (fuzzy), then it's most likely nummularioides..."green leaf" is what they call that hoya. If it's labeled "green leaf" then the only way it can be sp. DS-70 is if the labels were switched! Either way, good luck with your new hoya. Gabi P.S. check out the link to the thread below. But again, if you are looking at your plant and really think it's sp. DS-70, then you'd know better. Looking forward to seeing a picture. Here is a link that might be useful: EA nummularioides