Hoya sp. MPR IML1866

Deze Hoya is genoemd naar Marylin P. Rosario.

Dit is een Hoya camphorifolia IML1866

Hoya camphorifolia is een inwoner van de Filipijnse eilanden. De typesoort werd gevonden door Dr. Warburg in Centraal Luzon, het grootste eiland van de Filipijnen. Hier groeit het op relatieve hoogte (tot 1000')

Zoals de meeste Filippijnse Hoya's vereist deze Hoya veel water, losse doorlatende grond en een goede drainage. Hoya camphorifolia is een ideale variëteit om binnenshuis te kweken, het is gemakkelijk te kweken, bloeit gemakkelijk.

Deze Hoya gekocht bij Reinecke

Vandaag 9 maart 2024 staat deze Hoya in bloei.

Marilyn Pilapil Rosario. (MPR)

Marilyn Pilapil Rosario “inherited” her green thumb from her late Mom, Brizelda Mendoza Pilapil, who was into orchids. Myn grew up watching her Mom give tender loving care to an exotic collection of orchids. Small wonder then that she has an extensive orchid section in her garden today. However, she has chosen to seriously collect hoyas instead of orchids.

Myn has fond memories of the attractive hoya flowers in her Lola’s garden in Liloan which she used as earrings as a child. She found the flowers fascinating and always dreamt of having this plant in her garden someday.

Fast forward to married life in Los Baños, Laguna, as loving wife of Elpidio Rosario, Ph.D in Agriculture, and mother of four. She found time to go to the UP Los Baños Social Garden “Gubatum” section where plant traders sold all kinds of wild plants from the nearby forests. She bought a lot of what was called “dapo” (meaning plants from the forest) and this included different species of hoyas. Thus, started her treasured collection.

As an avid collector, Myn was in touch with other hoya enthusiasts, one of which was Torill Nhuus, president of the Swedish Hoya Society. Torill connected her to Nathalie Simonsson who was on a visit to UP Los Baños with plans of searching for hoyas on Mt. Makiling. She was not given permission to scale the mountain, so Myn shared with her whatever “dapo” was in her garden.

The hoyas she gave to Nathalie found their way to Dale Kloppenburg, a UC Berkeley botanist and an authority on hoyas. He studied the specimens thoroughly and then to honor its source, registered it in the name of Marylin (wrong spelling) Rosario and called it Hoya Rosarioae. So now, Myn can proudly say that there’s a species named after her among the species of hoyas.