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STRAIGHT ANSWER JAPAN TOUR 最終公演
2015/2/11(Wed)
at 浮間舟渡 TRINITY B3 PARK & SHOP
CREEP OUT
CRUCIAL SECTION
DIE BIRTH
THE FANGS
lifefocus(from静岡)
LOYAL TO THE GRAVE
MAKE IT LAST
SLIGHT SLAPPERS
SOUL DISCHARGE
THRH
VIVISICK
STRAIGHT ANSWER
food
KaOS KITCHEN
Kinakobo's Taco-Rice
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あかほし珈琲(COFFEE STAND)
shop
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Family : Apocynaceae
Hoya carnosa, the porcelain flower or wax plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to East Asia. It is a common house plant grown for its attractive waxy foliage, and sweetly scented flowers. It is grown well in pots and hanging baskets.
Here is Chat GPT's answer to the question of whether Hoya carnosa is native to Australia.
Native status — partly yes, but mostly Asia
Many sources list Hoya carnosa’s native range as East and Southeast Asia — southern China, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, parts of Japan, etc.
Wikipedia
Grokipedia
Some sources also include Australia among its native regions (or potential native regions).
Llifle
Aussie Green Thumb
There is some uncertainty or inconsistency among botanical records: some databases describe it as native to Asia (not Australia), while others include “Australia / Pacific islands” in its range.
Wikipedia
Llifle
So: it's not exclusively Australian, and whether it’s definitively “native” across Australia appears to depend on the source.
Conclusion: It can be considered native to — or at least naturally occurring in — some parts of Australia according to some horticultural / plant-distribution sources. But the “classic” or majority native range lies in Asia.
🌿 Habitat & Rainforest / Forest Origins
Hoya carnosa is described as a climbing / epiphytic or semi-epiphytic vine: in the wild it often grows on trees (or rocks) rather than strictly in the ground.
Llifle
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Plant File Online
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Many sources say its “natural habitat” is tropical or subtropical forest / rainforest — specifically lowland tropical and subtropical rainforest.
Llifle
Grokipedia
That means yes: in the regions where it evolved naturally, Hoya carnosa is associated with humid forest / rainforest-type environments, living up on trees in a partly epiphytic lifestyle.
🏡 What this means for growing / seeing it in Australia
Because of its rainforest / forest origin and partly epiphytic habit:
In Australia (especially in suitable climates), it can grow outdoors or in gardens, especially where conditions mimic its native habitat: warm, humid, semi-shaded, or under trees/trellises.
Indoors or in hanging baskets, it’s often treated as a houseplant, because many Australian climates (especially temperate zones) may not meet its native humidity or warmth all year round.
Summary: Yes — Hoya carnosa likely includes Australia within its native (or naturalised) distribution (though its primary origin is in Asia). And yes — it is (or used to be) a rainforest / forest-dwelling plant, growing as a semi-epiphyte in humid, subtropical or tropical forest settings.
Australian Occurrences
I checked the major Australian biodiversity databases and flora resources for Hoya carnosa records and here’s what they show.
Quick answer
Yes — there are Australian occurrence records for Hoya carnosa in national databases (ALA/AVH and GBIF).
Biodiversity Information Exchange
But most Australian floras and regional keys treat Hoya as a genus that contains several genuinely native Australian species (e.g. Hoya australis), while H. carnosa is primarily native to East & SE Asia and is often recorded in Australia as a cultivated, introduced or otherwise scattered occurrence rather than a widespread native.
GBIF
What the data show (details)
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has a species page for Hoya carnosa and links to occurrence records / the AVH (Australasian Virtual Herbarium). That means there are specimen/observation records accessible through ALA/AVH. However the AVH contains both wild and cultivated records (and some overseas specimens held in Australasian herbaria), so each record needs to be checked individually for whether it represents a wild/natural population or a cultivated specimen.
Biodiversity Information Exchange
GBIF lists Hoya carnosa and shows its main native distribution as Asia; GBIF occurrence downloads include records for many countries (and may include Australian records contributed via ALA/AVH). GBIF’s synthesis supports the view that H. carnosa’s core native range is Asia.
GBIF
Australian flora resources note that several Hoya species are native in northern/ tropical Australia (for example Hoya australis is clearly native and widespread in Qld/NSW/Top End/WA). Sources that discuss horticulture in Australia also say hoyas (as a genus) occur in “pockets of northern Australia.” But authoritative state/flora pages treat H. australis (and relatives) as the native taxa — H. carnosa itself is not generally treated as a widespread native Australian species in the state floras.
anpsa.org.au
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Practical interpretation
If your question is “will I find Hoya carnosa growing wild in Australian rainforests?” — the short practical answer is not commonly. In Australia you are more likely to encounter native Hoya species (e.g. H. australis) in rainforest and rainforest-margin habitats. H. carnosa appears in databases for Australia, but those records often represent cultivated plants, isolated naturalised occurrences, or specimens held in herbaria (including some collected outside Australia and held in Australian collections).
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
Patrick Blanc at press conference re: new vertical garden at Drew School, San Francisco CA: yer basic mad green-haired elfin genius at work.
An exercise Sarah had to do for her art course. Her tutor liked it better without the fish... we think he's nuts. The fish is of course an angler fish...
One of the scoreboard trivia questions was to name the (whatever number) current Red Sox who had a 2004 World Series ring. The trick answer is Joe Nelson, who got into 3 games for the Sox in '04. Since that World Series was such a big deal, the Sox went kind of crazy and gave rings to EVERYONE who had been involved in any way, no matter how small... including Nelson.
カタギレコード PRESENTS
STRAIGHT ANSWER JAPAN TOUR 最終公演
2015/2/11(Wed)
at 浮間舟渡 TRINITY B3 PARK & SHOP
CREEP OUT
CRUCIAL SECTION
DIE BIRTH
THE FANGS
lifefocus(from静岡)
LOYAL TO THE GRAVE
MAKE IT LAST
SLIGHT SLAPPERS
SOUL DISCHARGE
THRH
VIVISICK
STRAIGHT ANSWER
food
KaOS KITCHEN
Kinakobo's Taco-Rice
イクチャム
あかほし珈琲(COFFEE STAND)
shop
city rights
up to six inches from the ground in sandy clifftop soil in the golf course at Pennard. I thought it could be wild balsam but the leaves are very narrow and saw toothed and the sapels almost dwarf the flowers!
Answering a question regarding the "women's conditioning" in Chapter 8: Women of the Enlightenment.
William Yenner at a book reading about his and other's accounts of the events often unspoken of at EnlightenNext.
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