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A note on the names in this episode. I am a plant grower from Indiana. Some of the names in this episode are Swedish, some are Papuan, and I know I did not say all of them the way the people who own them do. That is on me and my accent, never a lack of respect, least of all for the woman this e ...

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She edited the hoya world's journal for twenty three years. Botanists trusted her with the record of an entire genus. A species carries her name to this day. And there is not one confirmed photograph of her anywhere we can find. This is the story of Christine Burton and Hoya burtoniae, the velve ...
Grower sites say Hoya anncajanoae smells like caramel and drips nectar. This episode is about the woman inside that long name. Mary Ann Cajano, known as Ana, was a herbarium technician at the University of the Philippines Los Baños who looked after more than seventy thousand specimens. Four livi ...
The man whose name you say every day. Before hoya was a plant, it was Thomas Hoy, a working gardener at Syon House who served three Dukes of Northumberland across forty years. In 1810, botanist Robert Brown named an entire genus for him. This week: the gardener's life in the 1780s, the great est ...
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Most people know Hoya kerrii as the heart-shaped plant sold around Valentine’s Day. Behind that familiar leaf is the remarkable story of Arthur Francis George Kerr—an Irish doctor whose life became deeply rooted in Siam, now Thailand. In ...
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 Gui ...

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Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Why am I doing this?
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Updated September 2026: an earlier version of this episode included a quote I could not verify. It has been corrected, and the audio above is the fixed version. The plant's story turned out to be better than the first draft anyway. Hoya ...
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Penafian: Podcast dan karya seni yang dibenamkan pada halaman ini adalah daripada Phil Achleman, yang merupakan hak milik pemiliknya dan tidak bergabung dengan atau disokong oleh Listen Notes, Inc.