Hoya Sport: Albino Mutation Is a Natural "Sport"

What Is a Plant Sport?

A sport is a spontaneous genetic mutation producing a distinct branch (different color, form, flower). Your pink-stemmed, white-leaved Hoya branch is a sport.

Significance

• In nature, advantageous sports may become new varieties.
• Growers clone desirable sports via tissue culture (e.g., ‘Hoya carnosa Zach’).
• Many sports revert to original form over time.

Your Plant

Healthy, growing normally. Enjoy the novelty. It may stay albino, revert, or produce variegated offspring if propagated.

Botany Bonus

Sports are how new cultivars arise. You’ve witnessed evolution in your living room.