[2] Kew Gardens consider that the plant is also native to Manipur in northeast India on the border of Myanmar.

[2] Part of that description included: "The most lovely of all the Hoyas, to which a figure (as in the case of most flowers with much white) is little calculated to do justice.

It cannot be called a climber, but the branches are diffuse, copiously leafy, so that the leaves (unlike those in H. carnosa) form a dark back-ground to the delicate umbels of flowers, with leaves in shape resembling those of a Myrtle, and flowers more lively and differently-formed from those of Hoya carnosa, and most deliciously scented.

The corolla is a purer white, and the corona a deeper purple: resembling an amethyst set in frosted silver."

On the 24th of October 1850, Thomas Appleby (Floricultural Manager of Messrs Henderson, Edgeware-road in London) wrote that "The price for tolerable good plants is 7s.