Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Showing off the few I have ;), 1 by Gabro14

Gabro14 wrote:
Well, you technically can't ID something for sure until you see blooms, but you definitely do not have a bella. It's a lacunosa. And that's one of my favorites - the blooms smell delicious! Also, lacunosa is an early bloomer.

Carnosa, on the other hand, can take YEARS to bloom! I've heard that it can take 7-10 years. So just enjoy the foliage and be happy when you get blooms :)

A peduncle is a little stem that grows out of the main stem, and that's what the blooms will grow from. In your H. cv christine pic, it looks like you have one between the top leaf and the next 2 leaves (it looks like it's coming out of that second node).

Peduncles look quite different depending on which hoya you have. Here are some examples:

Here is a peduncle (with buds growing out of it) on my H. carnosa 'Krimson Princess'