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Definition of Genus Hoya
1. Noun. Large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia.
Group relationships: Asclepiadaceae, Family Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed Family
Member holonyms: Hoya
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hoya
Literary usage of Genus Hoya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"REMARKS ON THE genus Hoya, AND PARTICULARLY UPON HOYA CARNOSA. WE beg to refer
the reader to page 26 of the second volume : therein we have noticed many of ..."
2. A Naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, John I. Northrop (1910)
"... latter order he named for Thomas Hoy, an " intelligent and successful cultivator,"
for some time gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, the genus Hoya, ..."
3. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"A stove-house evergreen climber with white flowers, tipped witli buff. This is
now generally regarded as a section of the genus Hoya. ..."
4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"E. genus Hoya HOYA (named in honour of T. Hoy, FLS, a gardener, who died 1821).
A genus of about fifty species of stove or greenhouse shrubs with opposite, ..."
5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1898)
"BY JAMES BRITTEN, FLS ' THE following notes were made during a revision of the
genus Hoya as represented in the National Herbarium, and may be worth placing ..."
6. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1864)
"The genus Hoya is named in honour of Mr. Hoy, once gardener at Sion House.
It belongs to the natural order of ..."
7. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1851)
"The genus Hoya now consists of near fifty described species, most of them inhabit
moist woods in India and other countries. They have a season of rest ..."
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