Accession #: 198502818
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Wax Plant, Honey Plant
Family: Apocynaceae
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Country of Origin: S. China, Japan, Taiwan
Description: [syn. H. Motoskei Teysm. & Binnend.]
Succulent, glabrous or puberulous shrub, with trailing or climbing stems; leaves ovate to oblong-ovate or obovate, to 3 inches long, short-acuminate; cymes umbellate, many-flowered; corolla to 5/8 inches across, lobes white, spreading, corona red.
Uses: Identified by University of Georgia as a powerful air purifying plant that is particularly good at absorbing harmful volatile organic compounds. <P> From Philippine Alternative Medicine
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USDA Zone: 9-11
Source: Unknown
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