: any of a genus (Hoya) of climbing Asian and Australian evergreen shrubs of the milkweed family
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Give the hoya bright, indirect light for up to six hours daily.
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Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2025
Original price: $16 Bubble Skincare Slam Dunk Hydrating Moisturizer uses natural ingredients like aloe leaf juice and hoya lacosuna flower extract to deeply hydrate and restore essential nutrients for dry to normal skin.
—Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Locate the hoya’s nodes, which are found along the entire vine.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2025
Use the following step-by-step guide to propagate hoya plants from cuttings rooted in water or layered in soil.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2025
Count on these easy-to-grow trailers to cascade over the side of a pot: hoya, inch plant, ivy, satin pothos, string of pearls.
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—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
Put a hoya in a hanging planter by a sunny window and let its vines trail down, or train them to grow up a bookshelf, window, or archway.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
Perhaps the cutest, as well as the easiest is the Sweetheart hoya (Hoya kerrii).
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
Keep your Sweetheart hoya leaf in a bright sunny spot with temperatures in the 60 to 80 degree F range and water when dry.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
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Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2025
Original price: $16 Bubble Skincare Slam Dunk Hydrating Moisturizer uses natural ingredients like aloe leaf juice and hoya lacosuna flower extract to deeply hydrate and restore essential nutrients for dry to normal skin.
—Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Locate the hoya’s nodes, which are found along the entire vine.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2025
Use the following step-by-step guide to propagate hoya plants from cuttings rooted in water or layered in soil.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2025
Count on these easy-to-grow trailers to cascade over the side of a pot: hoya, inch plant, ivy, satin pothos, string of pearls.
4.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
Put a hoya in a hanging planter by a sunny window and let its vines trail down, or train them to grow up a bookshelf, window, or archway.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
Perhaps the cutest, as well as the easiest is the Sweetheart hoya (Hoya kerrii).
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
Keep your Sweetheart hoya leaf in a bright sunny spot with temperatures in the 60 to 80 degree F range and water when dry.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Hoya.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hoya. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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