Tropicals & Tender Perennials: I am a hoya addict, 0 by upanatemat3am

upanatemat3am wrote:
I think I made a promise last night to send a photo of H. bilobata after dinner but got side tracked with a much needed nap. This is the tiny leaved little H. bilobata that so many of us knew only as "Ben Hardy" back about 20 years ago. I once asked Ben how this plant came to have his name and he told me he had sent it to a lady friend as a gift and since nobody knew at the time what it was. the lady just put his name on it to remind her where she had gotten it. And that's the story of how H. bilobata came to be called "Ben Hardy" The flowers are also very tiny with the entire umbel being only about 1/2 inch across. You will need a magnifying glass to see the details of the live flowers but I have used a very powerful macro-lens to take the following photo so you can see some of the exquisite details. It has no fragrance at all that I can detect.
Annie W.