| Shooting Star Hoya |
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| File size | 599523 |
| Original date | 1/30/22 11:30 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 176.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ2500 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hoya multiflora Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Asclepias stellata, Hoya javanica, Hoya lindleyana
Synonyms: Asclepias stellata, Hoya javanica, Hoya lindleyana
Shooting Star Hoya is a tree-dwelling shrub which can
grow up to 2.5 m tall. Flowers are borne on clusters, 20-50 flowers per
cluster, which has short flower-cluster-stalk of 2-5 cm long.
Sweet-scented the flower is 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, with reflexed white
to cream petals and yellow to pale orange tips, looking like shooting
stars. Leaf blade is elliptic, measuring 12-20 cm x 2-7 cm, base
wedge-shaped and tip tapering, with pinnate venation. Leaf-stalk is 1-2
cm long. Stems can be erect or prostrate, pale grey in color, but turn
yellowish when dry with persistent leaf scars. Fruit is linear, around
20 cm long and 6 mm wide. Shooting Star Hoya is found in NE India,
China to Tropical Asia.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed in Dattaji Salvi Udyan, Thane. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,