Wiry twiner to several metres long, latex clear. Leaf blade elliptic, fleshy, flattish, up to 10 cm long and 4 cm wide, dark green, silver flecking present, hairless; margins entire, not recurved, same colour as rest of blade; venation penninerved, with 8 or 9 lateral veins; base cuneate; tip acute to acuminate. Umbel negatively geotropic, convex, of 15-50 flowers in tight ball. Corolla 15-18 mm wide, silvery white; lobes ovate, 7-8 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, flattish to slightly reflexed, shortly papillose. Corona silvery white to red. [H. 'Snowball', H. 'Thailand White']

Thailand

Often misidentified in cultivation.

Clear latex. Leaves with silver flecking.

Source: Forster, P.; Liddle, D.; Liddle, I. (2002). Hoya. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.