Hoya carnosa

March 21'st birth flower

Location: Copilot
Location: Tsukuba Botanical Garden
Location: Tsukuba Botanical Garden
Location: Tsukuba Botanical Garden
Location: Tsukuba Botanical Garden

Flower name
Hoya carnosa
Scientific name
Hoya carnosa
Alias桜蘭, ホヤカルノーサ
Place of originJapan, China, Taiwan, and Australi
Place of floweringGreenhouse, Sub-alpine, Horticultural species, Potted flower
Flowering seasonJune, July, August, September, October
Language of flowers“The Start of a New Chapter in Life”

What is Hoya carnosa

Birth flowers for Mar 21

The birth flower for March 21st: is Hoya carnosa.
A drop of flowers and poetry, one each day. From Kagiken's Flower Guide, we deliver words that bloom softly in your heart.
Aqua (Waterdrop Poetry, Illustration),Editing & Translation: Mizuho @Kagiken

Hoya carnosa.
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem.
Aqua is a water spirit.

💧Hoya carnosa's Droplet Poem: “If We Could Meet Again in a Dream”

by Aqua

When the night’s dewdrops spill
One by one
Star-shaped flowers bloom

They resemble
Your smile—one I can only see in my dreams
I reach out gently
But I can never quite reach them

But you know,
Even after I wake up, that warmth alone
Remains right here in my heart

The memories I don’t want to forget
Bloom like this in the night sky
And illuminate my heart

💧Aqua’s Afterword
I’ve written about Sakuran, who floats in the night sky like a star,
And the small shadow looking up at someone in a dream.

Hoya carnosa

Hoya carnosa, Wax vine, or Sakuraran (scientific name: Hoya carnosa) is a tropical, vine-like, evergreen, broad-leaved shrub and succulent plant native to Japan, China, Taiwan, and Australia and belonging to the genus Hoya of the family Potatoaceae.
In Japan, it is distributed in forests near the coast from southern Kyushu to the Ryukyu Islands.
From early summer to autumn, it produces 8 to 10 star-shaped flowers in diffuse inflorescences from the stem tips or leaf axils.
The flowers are pink in bud, and when they bloom, they are white with a reddish-purple star-shaped secondary corolla in the center. The flowers are fragrant. The genus name "Hoya" is a dedication to the English horticulturist Thomas Hoy.
The species name "Carnosa" means "fleshy" in Latin.

Common name: Hoya carnosa,
scientific name: Hoya carnosa,
English name: Wax vine, Hoya carnosa,
plant kingdom: Japan, China, Taiwan, Australia,
height: 30 - 100 cm,
leaf shape: single leaf, oval, leaf texture: thick, leathery leaf stalk: thick leathery; inflorescence: opposite; leaf color: green; leaf margin: entire; petiole: short;
flowering season: June to September; inflorescence shape: paniculate; bud color: light red; flower diameter: 2 cm; flower texture: waxy; flower color: white (buds are pink); fruit type: capsule.

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