Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hoya carnosa
hoja de cera, flor de cera, cerilla, honey plant, wax plant,porcelainflower
Shrubs epiphytic, climbing, glabrous except for inflorescences (WFO, 2022)
It is used as a medicine and has environmental uses (POWO, 2022).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Hoya
Species
carnosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Asclepias carnosa L. f. 1st June 2021 family Asclepiadaceae changed to Apocynaceae (Patricia Jaramillo & María del Mar Trigo)
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1991
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Its native range is S. China to Laos, Japan (S. Kyushu) to Taiwan (POWO, 2022).
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hoya carnosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=194. Accessed 2 January 2025.