The most fragrant potted flower: one plant can fill a whole room with fragrance, with unusual flower shapes, blooming all year round, and very easy to grow

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Diary, Issue 1315" introduces you to a plant with very fragrant flowers.

Today's star

Plants with fragrant flowers have always been top-grade potted choices, such as orchids, Daphne, gardenias, jasmine, and so on. Placed at home in pots, they let you enjoy the flowers and their scent, refreshing the heart and mind. Today we introduce a new type of ornamental plant, known as the most fragrant indoor ornamental flower.

Hoya

This flower is called hoya, though it is not an orchid. Strictly speaking, it belongs to the succulent plant category: a perennial climbing herbaceous shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, with natural distribution in South China such as Guangxi and Guangdong. It is known for its unusual flower shape and rich floral fragrance, and in recent years it has shone brilliantly in the flower market.

Unusual flower shape

The flowers of the hoya are borne in umbel-like cymes, axillary, with each pedicel bearing dozens of small five-pointed-star-shaped flowers at the same time, opening in all directions, neatly arranged, encircling into a "ball" shape. The flower center is red, and the petals are mostly white, pink, and red, crystal clear, like artificially crafted jade, with very high ornamental value.

One plant can fill a room with fragrance

Hoya flowers are extremely aromatic, resembling the sweet scent of honey, very rich. Especially on summer nights, when one flower opens, it can fill a whole room with fragrance. Placed on a balcony or in a courtyard, the scent can be smelled throughout the house; it is simply a natural air freshener. Its flowering period is very long, and with proper care it can bloom in all four seasons.

Easy to cultivate

Hoya was originally a kind of wild grass growing under trees in southern forests. Its growing environment is warm and humid; it tolerates shade and also likes diffused light. It is very robust: a single branch can survive from a cutting, making it super easy to grow. It can be maintained indoors, and even with heavy watering and heavy fertilizing it will not die; instead, it grows even more vigorously. The drawback is that it is not cold-tolerant. In the north, it cannot be planted outdoors in winter, and outdoor plants need cold protection measures, while indoors it can overwinter safely.

Vine flower

Hoya is also a vine flower, with the ability to climb walls. Grown indoors, a flower trellis can be set up to guide it into a flower pillar or flower curtain, decorating indoor walls, security nets, and so on. Its leaves are emerald green and glossy, evergreen in all four seasons, and its flower shape is unusual and beautiful. Both flowers and foliage can be enjoyed, making it very worth getting.