I’m confused. The sellers tag says ‘Hoya Macrophylla Pot of Gold’, but both in my Planta app and Google searches ‘Pot of Gold’ comes back as Hoya Latifolia. Is it mislabeled? Thanks
They have indeed been reclassified under latifolia! Crazy to me seeing as they look so visually different (at least to my latifolia)
evenheathens_
like the other commenter said it’s considered latifolia now but before the reclassification the plant you have would have been called macrophylla pot of gold. now that latifolia includes macrophylla there’s so much variation among them! i have one latifolia that looks like yours but with pink and white (latifolia albo marginata), and this one is another (latifolia sulawesi gps 8867):
It such a new reclassification, I think some plant shops (specialty), didn’t get the memo 😂 I swear I read it was just like Nov or Dec of 2025. 🤷♀️
I had to school my local specialty plant shop too ☺️
vespirs
This is indeed Hoya latifolia, but to clarify, H. macrophylla was not reclassified as H. latifolia. The two species are not synonymous, it was a mislabeling issue stemming from an invalid duplicate publication of the H. macrophylla name. What we called (and many still call) H. macrophylla was *never* that species (because the erroneous publication was never valid).
Hoya macrophylla is still very much an accepted/valid and *different* species than H. latifolia. Thanks to recent work by the incredible Michele Rodda we know that the true H. macrophylla is what was previously accepted as H. cinnamomifolia (and its infraspecific taxa). Here’s a link to that paper if anyone is interested:
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They have indeed been reclassified under latifolia! Crazy to me seeing as they look so visually different (at least to my latifolia)
like the other commenter said it’s considered latifolia now but before the reclassification the plant you have would have been called macrophylla pot of gold. now that latifolia includes macrophylla there’s so much variation among them! i have one latifolia that looks like yours but with pink and white (latifolia albo marginata), and this one is another (latifolia sulawesi gps 8867):
https://preview.redd.it/fnlw10kt5rjg1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58383f40d4bdc07dd2c80af06d5133086038a51f
It such a new reclassification, I think some plant shops (specialty), didn’t get the memo 😂 I swear I read it was just like Nov or Dec of 2025. 🤷♀️
I had to school my local specialty plant shop too ☺️
This is indeed Hoya latifolia, but to clarify, H. macrophylla was not reclassified as H. latifolia. The two species are not synonymous, it was a mislabeling issue stemming from an invalid duplicate publication of the H. macrophylla name. What we called (and many still call) H. macrophylla was *never* that species (because the erroneous publication was never valid).
Hoya macrophylla is still very much an accepted/valid and *different* species than H. latifolia. Thanks to recent work by the incredible Michele Rodda we know that the true H. macrophylla is what was previously accepted as H. cinnamomifolia (and its infraspecific taxa). Here’s a link to that paper if anyone is interested:
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/publications/gardens-bulletin-singapore/-/media/sbg/gardens-bulletin/gbs_77_01_y2025/77_01_12_y2025_v77p1_gbs_pg149.pdf