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Field Guide · Hoya
The curled, contorted Hoya carnosa 'Compacta' looks like a mistake of botany — and rewards the patient with wax-pink umbels that smell of chocolate at dusk.
The original Hindu rope: leaves folded in on themselves along a shortened internode, stacked like green dreadlocks down a wiry stem. Slow to start, then suddenly long. Blooms cream-pink in tight 20–30 floret umbels with a faint chocolate-vanilla scent. The benchmark every sport is measured against.
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