Hoya clemensiorum: The Rooted Wanderers

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Hoya clemensiorum is named for two people, not one. Joseph Clemens was an Army chaplain who followed his wife Mary into the field, from Hawaii to the Philippines to China to British North Borneo. When he died on a jungle trail in New Guinea in 1936, Mary wrote it down on a herbarium label and kept collecting alone, adding roughly fourteen thousand more specimens before she was done. This episode is their story, and how a hoya lost its name and got it back.Full writeup at gatheringmoss.shop/blogs/hoya-names/hoya-clemensiorum-the-rooted-wanderers