Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Stinky australis, 0 by markroy68

markroy68 wrote:
Sofi, I don't usually go out of my way to criticize other peoples labeling, but I have seen that one, and I have to say that calling a hoya H australis "subspecies" is one of the dumbest and most counter-intuitive labelings I've ever seen. Beyond lazy on their part. It looks to have really large leaves. (your plant) but I guess that could be the picture. Here is a photo of my ssp. australis from kapoho- from AlohaHoyas. This is a form that appears on some pacific islands, but not on the Australian continent. David Liddle says he would be prepared to designate it a seperate sub-species if his data backed it up, but for now he says it's ssp. australis. The main diference in this form is the very large leaves. Carol has some great photos on the forum in past posts. So yeah, watch the flowering habit- it's the only way I can tell for sure with these two ssp., since the leaves can vary so much and the flowers look extremely similar. Ssp. australis is mostly fall, very heavy flowering, with a few flowers at other time of the year. Ssp. tenuipies is almost exclusively spring.

This message was edited Jul 11, 2006 6:28 PM