Endless Cascades® Mitrata Silver

Here's a Hoya grown for foliage that looks dusted in silver. Endless Cascades® 'Mitrata Silver' (Hoya mitrata) sends out vines of long, lance-shaped leaves, freckled and mottled edge to edge in cool pewter over deep green, no two patterned quite alike. Like most hoyas it prefers medium to bright, indirect light — the brighter the light, the more pronounced that silver becomes — and likes to dry out in between waterings. On the rare occasion it blooms, it sends out clusters of ivory flowers with a red center, crowned like the bishop's mitre that gives the species its name. When the flowers are spent, leave the spurs in place, as hoyas rebloom on old peduncles.