# What in the heck is a Hoya?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-is-a-hoya/48601>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 5, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-is-a-hoya/48601 "2001-01-05T18:21:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-is-a-hoya/48601/21 "2001-01-07T17:37:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by samclem \*  
> \*\*Add-in **Sua** , and 3 out of 5 Hoyas have a screen name that ends in _-ene_. Must be code. \*\*

Nah, it just means we have double bonds.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-is-a-hoya/48601/22 "2001-01-07T19:04:04Z")

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Growing up in Arlington, Va some _cough, hack_ years ago, I always heard a joke, the final line of which was “…watch out you don’t step in the **hoya** ”. Now I finallly understand that it must have been made up by one of your rivals.

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**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-is-a-hoya/48601/23 "2001-01-10T22:42:37Z")

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Yeah, yeah, so we’re geeks who cheer in dead languages. What of it?

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**Author:** ![AKAmame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@AKAmame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AKAmame)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-is-a-hoya/48601/24 "2001-01-11T10:16:10Z")

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[http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/gall4a.html#hm-image](http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/gall4a.html#hm-image)

Shade tolerant. Had one in the bathroom for years, grew luxuriantly, but never bloomed. Hard to blame it, really.

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