Reverse Variegated Hindu Rope Hoya, Wax Plant, Porcelain Flower 'Mauna Loa'

This plant is a hotel for mealy bugs in my experience. I love the look and the smell of the blooms, Chocolate cupcakes. It is very hardy ...Read Moreto cool temps and stands a bit of neglect on the watering.

This cultivar was patented by Barnell L. Cobia as 'Mauna Loa''.
Here description taken from the Patent info:
(the most impo...Read Morertant parts are bolded for better understanding)

The new distinct variety of the milkweed family substantially as herein shown and described and characterized in particular as to novelty by a growth habit providing speciments which are structurally closely similar in apearance to plant specimens of the Hoya compacta variety but which are distinguishable therefrom by a combination of the following distinctive characeristics:
(a) a more compact growth habit
(b) lighter appearing stems which in color are characterized by hues which predominantly range from pink to orange yellow in fully matured stems,
(c) lighter appearing petioles which in color are characterized by hues which predominantly range from oive to yellow green in fully matured leaves,
(d) variegated leaf blades which at the upper epidermis side are distinctively characterized by a green border area that surrounds an albino center field which has green blotches that are lighter in color than the border area and tend to concentrande along the surrounding border area, and which at the lower epidermis side are distinctively characterized by a field with green blotches that tend to concentrate along the margins of the leaf blade, and
(e) an inflorescence with a peduncle and sepals that are characeristically grayish red and/or moderate red and with pedicles that characteristically are dark pink in color.