This week we are talking about Hoya gracilis. This plant is native to Eastern Asia and Australia and belongs to the Apocynaceae or Dogbane which also includes milkweed, jasmine, pachypodium, and many others. All members of this family have flowers with radial symmetry...

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One of the first things you will learn in an introductory Botany or Horticulture class is how plants are named. Plant taxonomy is the science that identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants – think Kingdom, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species...

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