It's Sunday Stamps time again in Viridian's Postcard Blog and the theme is summer, especially butterflies. I regret that I don't have butterfly stamps to share...but summer is also about flowers in bloom! Butterflies love flowers, so I am sharing this Philippine Postal Corporation 2011 First Quarter Issue of Topicals Philippine Hoyas on 08 March.
Hoyas can be found all over the archipelago. It can be found in 200-300 varieties, either in vine or shrub type. Shown here is a se-tenant block of 4 at P7 each. My favorite is the Hoya mindorensis since this variety is endemic to my home province of Mindoro.
Trivia: This genus was named by botanist Robert Brown in honor of his friend, Thomas Hoy. Brown is one of the pioneers in the use of microscope in botany. Hoy was a gardener to the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House in Middlesex, UK.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org , http://www.philippinestamps.net
Lovely and exotic flowers! They may be commonplace to you, I don't know, but to me they are exotic. :)
ReplyDelete@Shiela: They shouldn't be exotic for me, but they are!
ReplyDeleteI only see hoyas when I go home to the province. And oddly enough, it's the Summer hoya w/c is a common sight in gardens there...not the Mindoro hoya.
Those look interesting. I hadn't heard of hoyas before.
ReplyDelete@Postcardy: For most variety, when you take an individual flower from a bunch and hold it upside down...it looks like a shooting star. Btw, they're commonly called waxplant...
ReplyDeleteI like their common names as well, Grandmother's wax plant must have a story behind it. Pretty plants.
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