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Tourists from Seremban waiting for the bus after visiting the Bentong wet market
recently.
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THE Bentong Wet Market was a hive of activity on a
Sunday morning recently.
While the scene was nothing out of the ordinary for a wet
market, the one thing that struck me was that there were
many tourists.
I found out later that most of them were retirees, and on a
one-day tour of Bentong and surrounding areas.
The itinerary was sight-seeing, meals and shopping. It
seems such tours are becoming popular over the
weekends.
The tourists I met at the Bentong wet market were from
two groups, from Seremban. One was an exercise group
and the other members from the Chi Hwa School old boys
and girls association.
Seremban and Bentong is about 150km apart.
The traders in the market were visibly happy to see the
tourists and one trader told me that business was brisk
over the weekends — thanks to the tourists.
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They mostly go for the Bentong ginger and Bentong soy
sauce.
There are about 20 stalls in the market selling the ginger!
The traders might not have studied branding but I guess
the quality of the product (Bentong ginger) speaks for
itself.
One trader likened the Bentong ginger to a poor man’s
ginseng, seeing its many health benefits. In fact, a few of
my friends also gave their thumbs up for Bentong ginger.
One of my colleagues from Petaling Jaya said her mother
had sourced the ginger for her to take during her
confinement.
But they were surprised over the “ginger power” to draw
tourists to Bentong!
Well, I think it (ginger power) is a case of a good product
being introduced to more people via a concerted manner.
The promotion started in earnest about two years ago in a
project called “Maju Bentong” by Bentong MP Datuk Seri
Liow Tiong Lai to introduce his constituency to more
people in the country and outside.
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It came with a website and pamphlets outlining the
attractions of Bentong, from places of interest, history to
food like Bentong ginger, Bentong soy sauce and Bentong
ice cream.
My colleague Lay Phon and I bought the ginger powder
after reading the top 10 health benefit claims of Bentong
ginger displayed at a stall in the market.
However, we did not have time to try the Bentong ice
cream during an assignment there recently.
In fact, I was surprised that there were so many interesting
things to see and food to try in Bentong.
“Maju Bentong” is sort of a catalyst for more exposure for
the constituency.
My teenage nephew, who heard me talking about Bentong
ginger, told me that Bentong was featured in a travel or
food programme over television recently.
Some of the tourists at Bentong market also said they got
to know Bentong from articles about it or watching
television programmes.
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I guess the horror movie “Seventh” which was filmed in
Bentong and screened recently is yet another good bit of
publicity for Bentong.
A tour guide I met at the market said there was an
increasing demand for day-trips to Bentong and
surrounding areas like Raub and Bukit Tinggi recently.
Depending on the package, she said the price for a day
trip ranged from RM80 to RM130 per person, and the
price was inclusive of lunch and dinner. The difference in
pricing she added, would depend on the type of meals.
Apart from boosting business in smaller towns, tourism is
also a catalyst for development in the long run.
The people in semi rural areas are proud that there are
actually many people who admire who they are and what
they have — the old town charm.
Recently, Liow announced that Bentong was ranked fourth
in the Happiness Index, among all the local authorities in
the country.
I spent almost two hours in the market and found the
people there very friendly. For instance, two women doing
their marketing took time to tell me how to cook a curry
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dish using some raw ingredients which looked like the
inner section of a tree trunk.
They must have seen me staring at the tree trunk!
Their gesture speaks volumes of Malaysians who are
generally warm and friendly.
For tourists, locals or foreigners alike, the human factor is
very important and an integral part of their travelling
experience.
With that, I am sure the smaller towns and villages would
have an edge over others in tourism development.
There are already many smaller towns and villages which
have gained prominence as a tourist destination.
Bentong is a good example, and I look foward to going
there on a day trip — as a tourist — with my family and
friends.
Oxyeleotris marmorata
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyeleotris_marmorata
Oxyeleotris marmorata
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Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Eleotridae
Genus:
Oxyeleotris
Species:
O. marmorata
Binomial name
Oxyeleotris marmorata
(Bleeker, 1852)
Synonyms
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Eleotris marmorata Bleeker,
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Bostrichthys
marmoratus(Bleeker, 1852)
Gigantogobius jordani Fowler,
1905
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Callieleotris
platycephalusFowler, 1934
Soon Hock Fish / Marble Goby / 笋壳鱼
(Oxyeleotris Marmorata)
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Soon hock fish / Marble goby fish / 笋壳鱼 (Oxyeleotris Marmorata) is one
of premium freshwater fish type who have large demand among Asian
countries. This kind of fish have white opaque colored meat and have a very
delicate taste. Marble goby fish in local market known as “ikan malas” or
translated in English as “lazy fish” because the fish characteristics is very
inactive and their only movement made is to catch foods in front of their
mouth.
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DESCRIPTION
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Marble Goby fish is one of premium freshwater fish used mainly for
consumption purposes, the fish have very delicate meat texture, juicy taste,
and have a high albumin content. Our stock of Marble Goby fish are sourced
from wild catch for big size and semi wild captive for medium size, semiwild means that the fish captivated and grows in their natural habitats inside
the cage pond we have in the captivity site, this method can preserve the meat
taste of the fish much better than pond captive fish who often have muddy
smell in their flesh.
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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Eleotridae
Genus:
Oxyeleotris
Species:
O. marmorata
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OTHER COMMON NAMES :
 Soon Hock Fish
 Marble Goby Fish
 Ketutu Fish
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Marble Sleeper Fish
Sleeper Goby
Sand Goby
笋壳鱼
Pla Bu Sai (Thailand)
Ca Bong Twong (Vietnam)
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Hoya lacunosa
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya_lacunosa
Hoya lacunosa
Hoya lacunosa , inflorescence
system
Procedure: Enzianartige (Gentianales)
family :
Dog poison plants (Apocynaceae)
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Subfamily :
Tribus :
genus :
Art :
Asclepiadoideae(Asclepiadoideae)
Marsdenieae
Wax flowers ( Hoya )
Hoya lacunosa
Scientific name
Hoya lacunosa
FLOWER
Hoya lacunosa is a species of the genus of wax flowers ( Hoya ) of the subfamily
of asclepiadoideae (Asclepiadoideae).
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1features
2Geographical distribution and habitat
3taxonomy
4documents
o 4.1literature
o 4.2References
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Features [ edit ]
Hoya lacunosa is a climbing plant with thin, bare stems. The Nodien train roots to anchor. The
leaves have 4 mm long, thick, almost bare stems. The leaf blades are ovate to lanceolate and fleshy
shiny. The base is round or narrowly rounded, tapering the outer end long. They measure 3 to 7
inches in length and 2.5 to 3 cm in width. The Vein of the leaf blade should be higher.
The hanging inflorescence is 1- to 30-flowered (16 to 20-flowered [1] ) and a convex curvature. The
stalk of the inflorescence is stiff and to 5 cm long. The flowers are button-shaped with a diameter of
about 8 mm. The rigid, curved flower stalks are 0.4 to 2.5 cm long. The sepals are very small and
dull. The corolla is whitish, inside thickly covered with long, fluffy hair. The corolla lobes are reflexed
triangular and strong. The corona is yellowish white with a dark yellow center. The staminal
Nebenkronzipfel are elliptical in shape, with a blunt, slightly ascending outer projection and a
pointed, ascending inner extension. The stylus head is conical. The extensions of the stamens are
very thin and häutchenartig. The oblong-falcate pollinia possess thick, goblet-shaped and broad
winged Caudiculae. The flowers are very fragrant and remain open for about 5 days. They produce
little or no nectar. The long-spindle follicles are 5 to 6 cm long and 0.5 cm thick.
Geographic distribution and habitat [ edit ]
The species has a very large area of distribution, the India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
and Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra) ranges.
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Taxonomy [ Edit ]
The species was in 1826 by Carl Ludwig Blume in his "Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch
Indie" on S.1063 first time, but not ready [2] . Only in 1848 was a flower also figure in his work
"Rumphia ..." [3] and 1849 in the factory "Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum" [4] . Synonyms
are Hoya suaveolens Miquel and Hoya lacunosa var. Pallidiflora Hook. f. and probably Hoya
nabawanensisKloppenburg & Wiberg in 2002 [5] .
Documents [ Edit ]
Literature [ Edit ]
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Focke Albers, Ulli Meve (ed.): Succulent Encyclopedia Volume 3 Asclepiadaceae (milkweed
family) . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3982-0 (p.154).
Dale Kloppenburg and Ann Wayman: The World of Hoyas - a pictorial guide. A revised
version. 248 S., Orca Publishing Company, Central Point, Oregon, 2007 ISBN 0-9630489-45 (p.136 / 7)
Anders Wennström and Katarina Stenman: . The Genus Hoya - Species and Cultivation 144 S.,
Botanova, Umeå 2008 ISBN 978-91-633-0477-4 (p.79)
Surisa Somadee and Jens Kühne: Hoya 200 different wax flowers. 96 S., Formosa-Verlag,
Witten 2011 ISBN 978-3-934733-08-4(p.58)
References [ edit ]
1. Jumping Up↑ Somadee & Kühne (2011: p.58)
2. Jumping Up↑ Online at biodiversitylibrary.org
3. Jumping Up↑ Blume, Karl Ludwig: Rumphia, sive, Commentationes Botanicae Imprimis de
plantis Indiae Orientalis: tum tum penitus incognitis quae in libris rheedii, Rumphii,
Roxburghii, Wallichii aliorum recensentur / scripsit CL Blume cognomine Rumphius.Tomus
quartus. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden, The Netherlands) in 1848 online at
biodiversitylibrary.org - Figure (Taf.184) ordescription (p.30, as Otostemma lacunosa )
4. Jumping Up↑ Carl Ludwig Blume: Museum botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, sive, Stirpium
exoticarum novarum vel minus cognitarum ex vivis aut siccis brevis expositio et
descriptio. T.1, Lugduni-Batavorum (Leiden, Netherlands), EJ Brill, 1849- (56) online at
biodiversitylibrary.org description (p.59) and Figure XI
5. Jumping Up↑ www.simones-hoyas.de - site of Simone Merdon-Bennack
External links [ edit ]
Commons: Hoya lacunosa - collection of images, videos and audio files
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www.simones-hoyas.de - site of Simone Merdon-Bennack
www.myhoyas.com
Hoya
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya
For other uses, see Hoya (disambiguation).
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Hoya
Hoya lanceolata ssp. bella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Gentianales
Family:
Apocynaceae
Subfamily:
Asclepiadoideae
Genus:
Hoya
R.Br.
Species
See text.
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Synonyms
Madangia
Micholitzia
Hoya is an Asclepiad genus of 200–300 species of tropical plants in
the family Apocynaceae(Dogbane). Most are native
to Asia including India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Việt Nam, andIndonesia, There is a great diversity
of species in the Philippines, and species in Polynesia,New Guinea, and Australia.
Common names for this genus are waxplant, waxvine, waxflower or simply hoya. This genus was
named by botanist Robert Brown, in honour of his friend, botanist Thomas Hoy.
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4.1Bibliography
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Description[edit]
Hoya carnosa
Hoyas are evergreen perennial creepers or vines or rarely, shrubs. They often grow epiphytically on
trees; some grow terrestrially, or occasionally in rocky areas. They climb by twining, and with the
employment of adventitious roots. Larger species grow 1–18 m (3–59 ft), or more, with suitable
support in trees. They have simple entire leaves, arranged in an opposite pattern, that are typically
succulent. Leaves may exhibit a variety of forms, and may be smooth, felted or hairy; veination may
be prominent or not, and many species have leaf surfaces flecked with irregular small silvery spots.
The flowers appear in axillary umbellate clusters at the tip of peduncles. Hoya peduncles are
commonly referred to as spurs. In most species these spurs are perennial and are rarely shed. Each
flowering cycle increases the length of the spur, and in the larger species can eventually reach
27 cm (11 in) or more. Flowers vary in size from 3 mm (0.1 in) (Hoya bilobata Schltr.) to over 95 mm
(4 in) (in H. lauterbachii K. Schuman) in diameter. Flower form is typically star-shaped, with five
thick, waxy, triangular petals, topped with another star-shaped structure, the corona. Colours on
most species range from white to pink; there are species that exhibit yellow to orange, dark reds to
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near-black, and there are green flowers. Many are sweetly scented. and most produce
abundant nectar.
Pollinators include moths, flies, and ants. Pollination is poorly understood, but plants left outdoors in
temperate regions do sometimes produce seed, indicating pollination by local insects.
Seeds are borne in twin pods, actually follicles, are generally light, and are dispersed by the wind by
means of a small tuft of silky fluff. Germination is rapid, but viability is not long.
At least some species exhibit Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM), including H. carnosa.
Several species exhibit adaptations for mutualism with ants by providing modified leaves
for domatia ("homes"), much as in the related genus Dischidia; H. imbricata has leaves that form a
concave cup over the tree trunk it climbs up to shelter ants, and H. darwinii has arrangements of
bullate leaves on its stems to form shelters.
Leaves[edit]
Hoya leaves vary in size, texture, color and venation. In size, leaves range from as small as 5 mm in
length and 2 to 4 mm in width (Hoya engleriana Hosseus) to as large as 25 cm by 35 cm. (Hoya
latifolia G. Don). Hoya coriacea Blume, has been reported have leaves as long as two feet in length.
There are hoyas with almost perfectly round leaves and others with linear leaves (Hoya linearisWall.
ex. D. Don and Hoya teretifolia Griff. ex Hook. f.). One popular species, Hoya shepherdii Short ex
Hook. has leaves that resemble string beans hanging in bunches from their stalks. Hoya
linearis Wall. ex D. Don is covered with fine downy hair and resembles masses of Spanish Moss
(Tillandsia usneoides) hanging from trees in its native habitat. Some Hoya leaves are smooth and
shiny; some are covered with hairs. Some Hoya leaves appear to be veinless while others have very
conspicuous veins of a lighter or darker colour than the rest of the leaves as in H. cinnomomifolia.
Some have leaves that are mottled with speckles of silvery white (Hoya carnosa R. Br., Hoya
pubicalyx). Some hoyas have leaves that are thin and translucent (Hoya coriacea Blume); some are
so thick and succulent that they look more like crassulas than hoyas (Hoya
australis ssp. rupicola, oramicola and saniaefrom Australia and Hoya pachyclada from Thailand).
One of the most succulent, Hoya kerrii Craib, has obcordate (inverse heart-shaped) leaves, with the
cleft away from the stem.
Flowers[edit]
Hoya mindorensis, (Photo by Phillip Tan, Singapore)
Hoya flowers are all shaped like five pointed stars. Some of the species' petals reflex so far that the
flowers appear to be round or ball-like. They grow in umbels, or in some species singly. Umbels can
reach impressive proportions in some species, and many species have individual flowers well over
three inches in diameter (H. imperialis Lindl., H. lauterbachii K. Schuman). H. coriacea Blume has
been known to have as many as 70 in an inflorescence, each individual measuring nearly 2 cm in
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diameter with the umbels over 30 cm in breadth. The single-flowered Hoya pauciflora Wight makes
up for its paucity by its flower size of nearly an inch and a half in diameter produced at any time of
year. Textures of flower surfaces may be glabrous and shiny, to matte, to finely haired, and some
being quite hairy. One of the two clones of Hoya mindorensis Schltr., from the Philippines, comes
very close to being a true red. Blue, purples, and violets do not appear to be represented in the
genusHoya.
Selected species[edit]
Species listed here are those given in Albers & Meve (2002) and accepted by both The Plant
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Hoya anulata – Australia (Queensland), Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea
Hoya archboldiana – Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Hoya australis – Australia, Fiji, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga
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Hoya australis ssp. australis – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Samoa, Vanuatu
Hoya australis ssp. oramicola – Australia (Northern Territory)
Hoya australis ssp. rupicola – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
Hoya australis ssp. sanae Australia (Queensland)
Hoya australis ssp. tenuipes – Australia (Queensland), Fiji, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua
New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga
Hoya benguetensis – Philippines
Hoya bilobata – Philippines
Hoya bordenii – Philippines
Hoya calycina – Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
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Hoya calycina ssp. calycina Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea
Hoya calycina ssp. glabrifolia – Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea
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Hoya carnosa – S. China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Australia (Queensland), Fiji
Hoya caudata – Malaysia (Malacca), S. Thailand
Hoya cinnamomifolia – Indonesia (Java)
Hoya coriacea – Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand
Hoya crassicaulis – Philippines
Hoya cumingiana – Philippines
Hoya diptera – Fiji (Viti Levu, Taviuni)
Hoya diversifolia – Cambodia, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, S. Thailand, S. Vietnam
Hoya eitapensis – Papua New Guinea
Hoya elliptica – Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore
Hoya engleriana – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Hoya erythrostemma – Malaysia, Myanmar, S. Thailand
Hoya finlaysonii – Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia, Myanmar, S. Thailand
Hoya fuscomarginata – Only known from cultivation.
Hoya globulosa – India (Sikkim), Nepal
Hoya heuschkeliana – Philippines (Luzon)
Hoya hypolasia – Papua New Guinea
Hoya imbricata – Indonesia (Sulawesi), Philippines
Hoya imperialis Philippines, Malaysia
Hoya inconspicua – Australia (Queensland), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
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Hoya kentiana – Philippines
Hoya kerrii – China, Cambodia, Indonesia (Java), Laos, NW. Thailand, S. Vietnam
Hoya lacunosa – India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Java,
Sumatra)
Hoya lanceolata – India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar
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Hoya lanceolata ssp. bella – India, Nepal, S. Myanmar
Hoya lanceolata ssp. lanceolata – Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal
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Hoya latifolia – Myanmar, Malaysia, S. Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra)
Hoya limoniaca – New Caledonia
Hoya linearis – China (Yunnan), India (Sikkim), Nepal
Hoya longifolia – Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand
Hoya macgillivrayi – Australia (Queensland)
Hoya macrophylla – Indonesia (Borneo, Java)
Hoya magnifica – Papua New Guinea
Hoya megalaster – Papua New Guinea
Hoya meliflua – Philippines
Hoya meredithii – Malaysia (Borneo)
Hoya mindorensis – Philippines
Hoya multiflora – China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand,
Vietnam
Hoya nicholsoniae – Australia (Queensland), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Hoya nummularioides – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Hoya obovata – India, Indonesia, Thailand, Fiji
Hoya obscura – Philippines
Hoya pachyclada – Thailand
Hoya parviflora – India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand
Hoya parvifolia – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Hoya pauciflora – India (Malabar, Kerala), Sri Lanka
Hoya pottsii – China
Hoya pubicalyx – Philippines
Hoya purpureo-fusca – Indonesia (Java)
Hoya retusa – India (Assam, Bombay Presidency), Indonesia (Sulawesi)
Hoya revoluta – Cambodia, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia
(Malacca), S. Thailand, Vietnam
Hoya serpens – Australia (Queensland), India (E. Himalaya), Nepal
Hoya shepherdii – SW. China, India
Hoya siamica – Cambodia, India, Laos, NW. Thailand, Vietnam
Hoya thailandica – Thailand (Chang Mai)
Hoya thomsonii – China (Xizang), India (Assam)
Hoya tsangii – China, Philippines (Mindanao)
Hoya verticillata – Brunei, Cambodia, E. India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi,
Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore
Hoya vitellina – Indonesia (Java)
Cultivation and uses[edit]
Many species of Hoya are popular houseplants in temperate areas (especially H.
carnosa), grown for their attractive foliage and strongly scented flowers.
Numerous cultivars have been selected for different leaf forms or flower colours. Hoyas
grow well indoors, preferring bright light, but will tolerate fairly low light levels, although
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they may not flower without bright light. Hoyas commonly sold in nurseries as
houseplants include cultivars of H. carnosa (Krimson Queen, Hindu Rope −
compacta), H. pubicalyx (often mislabelled as H. carnosa or H. purpurea-fusca), and H.
kerrii. Hoyas are easy to propagate, and are commonly sold as cuttings, either rooted or
unrooted, or as a potted plant.
Hoya carnosa has been shown in recent studies at the University of Georgia to be an
excellent remover of pollutants in the indoor environment.
Various cultures have used hoyas medicinally, especially Polynesian cultures. Some are
toxic to livestock and sheep poisonings in Australia are reported.
Several Hoya species and cultivars are excellent terrarium plants.
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Hoya campanulata
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Hoya cinnamomifolia
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Hoya pottsii
References[edit]
1.
Jump up^ Robert Brown (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 per oras
utriusque insulae collegit et descripsit Robertus Brown; insertis passim aliis speciebus auctori hucusque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, praaesertim Banksianis, in
primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis 1. London: Richard Taylor and Biodiversity Heritage Library. p. 459.
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9. Hoya lacunosa Blume, Bijdr. 1063. 1826.
裂瓣球兰 lie ban qiu lan
Otostemma lacunosum (Blume) Blume.
Subshrubs epiphytic. Stems climbing to 1.5 m by adventitious roots, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Petiole 3-12
mm, subglabrous; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 × 1.2-3 cm, glabrous or subglabrous, base cuneate or
rounded, apex acute; lateral veins 2-4 pairs, obscure. Peduncle 2.5-7 cm, robust. Pedicel 5-13 mm. Sepals obtuse.
Corolla white with violet dots, 6-7 mm in diam., tube conspicuously white villous inside; lobes suborbicular, much
longer than tube. Corona lobes ovate, constricted at middle, outer angle rounded, inner angle acute, surface with a
thin keel. Apical anther membranes triangular, exceeding stigma head; pollinia subobovate. Follicles lanceolate, 5-7
cm.
Cultivated in S Guangdong [introduced from Indonesia]
Decoctions of all parts are used to detoxify insect bites, draw out pus, and reduce swellings.
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Pometia pinnata J. R. et G. Forst.
| Pometia
番龙眼
Description from Flora of China
Irina tomentosa Blume; Pometia pinnata f. tomentosa (Blume) M. Jacobs; P. tomentosa (Blume) Teijsmann &
Binnendijk.
Trees, large, ca. 20 m tall, to 50 m tall. Crown large, broad, with evident buttress roots; branches grooved,
sometimes hirsute. Leaves rather large, with petiole to 1.5 m, axis and leaflets subglabrous to tomentose; leaflets
dense, 5-9 pairs, sometimes to 15 pairs, subopposite; petiolules short, inflated; blades:
first pair orbicular, small, base cordate, stipulelike; others oblong or upper ones nearly cuneate, 15-40 × 5-10 cm,
margin regularly serrate, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary; rachis and branches strong,
straight, 30-50 cm, pilosulose. Pedicels ca. 6 mm, base jointed. Sepals ca. 1 mm, pilosulose. Petals obovatetriangular, ca. 2 × 2 mm. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Fruit shiny, ellipsoid or sometimes subglobose, ca. 3 × 2 cm, glabrous.
This species is used for its timber.
Taiwan, Yunnan [India (Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands), Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Pacific islands (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga)].
CRYSTAL’ FRUIT (MATOA)
By Admin On 7 January 2013 In Exotic Fruits
http://bombasticborneo.com/2013/01/crystal-fruit/
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The first time we came across this fruit was at Pak Awang’s orchard in Biawak, Lundu. An Indonesian friend told us this fruit was called ‘matoa’ meaning crystal and that it was native to Iran
Jaya. Lately we have also come across fruit vendors at the 3rd Mile Market in Kuching selling this fruit too. But surprisingly it did not taste anywhere near Pak Awang’s.
Thick yellow flesh
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Crystal fruit
Compare with lime
Compare with longan
Green matoa
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Crystal “Matoa” tree
Local Name: Kasai, Matoa, Dawa
Botanical Name: Pometia pinnata
Family : Sapindaceae
Matoa is a tropical fruit mainly from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Philippines, East Indonesia, Papua and the Pacific Islands. It is not a very common fruit found elsewhere.
The fruit is much bigger than longan & has a hard shell. It is green when immature and will turn purplish red, green, dull brown or almost black, depending on the various varieties. The
yellowish white pulp is also much thicker, sweeter & the texture is chewy. It has a single seed which looks like a type of nuts. The seed is edible too and it is usually consumed roasted or boiled.
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