Ted Green and Dale Kloppenburg, two of the people of the group I went to Sulawesi with in 1994, have been so kind as to name one of the hoyas we found there after me. So, it is official, Hoya sp. GPS 8845 is now Hoya paulshirleyi. The article describing the plant can be found in Fraterna, the journal of the International Hoya Association. See here for the Fraterna website.
It is a fast growing species and very easy to flower, producing flowers in abundance. However, the individual flowers last only a day or so. The plant can take half sun, half shade and the leaves will colour red in the sun.
Hoya paulshirleyi
Paul Shirley Succulents 
August 26, 2012 at 9:01 am
[…] Sulawesian species was collected in 1994 between Tentena and Kolonodale. It is very similar to H. paulshirleyi GPS 8845 and to GPS 8865 and GPS 8870, but the flowers are much lighter. It was growing high up in a fairly […]
March 12, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Hello:
I already know that paulshirleyi has beautiful leaves from reading Ted Green’s description but does paulshirleyi have any fragrance? If it has fragrance, how fragrant is it? Thank you. Margaret
March 12, 2012 at 8:44 pm
No Margaret, there is no fragrance that I can detect.
June 14, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Hello,
I like to buy your hoya rooted. How to do, it’s not in the list of hoya. Thank you.
Have nice day.
June 21, 2010 at 12:54 pm
just send me an email with your request and I will see what I can do.
Paul
March 10, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Congratulations from me as well !
Nevertheless, let’s hope this plant doesn’t turn out to be another, already named species. š
January 25, 2010 at 12:08 pm
good evening
in my blog i say my hoyas cutting of p shirley
but in 2009 i would buy hoya PAULSHIRLEYI
but you have no this hoya
i hope buy 2010 in the spring to remember paul shirley!!!!!bye bye
January 24, 2010 at 6:16 am
Oops sorry ! I’ve misspelled the name. You must of course read “Hoya paulshirleyi” !
January 24, 2010 at 6:10 am
Congratulations Paul !
I saw Hoya paulshirley on the last volume of Fraterna !
You can be proud to have discovered such a beautiful plant ! I’m also sure that this Hoya is proud to be named after you ! š
You will have to build up a large stock…