African Violets and Gesneriads: June Flowers OT 2, 1 by jmp24

jmp24 wrote:
Raingaizer, the majority of the variegation on Krimson Queen leaves has green centers with white edges, Princess is the opposite, cream centers with green edges. I also see other differences, both in leaf shape and growth habits - subtle, but obvious if they are right next to each other. Pretty flowers!


And you all have not eaten a tomato until you have had a JERSEY tomato - in between 2 pieces of toasted white sourdough with Miracle Whip and black pepper...mmmmm.....

This is a solid green carnosa, but not one that has reverted from a variegated. It's my oldest hoya. New growth, both vines and leaves, burgundy-ish rust colored. The interesting thing is that I have a few hoyas grown from this plant, one that is kept indoors in bright indirect light blooms a pale almost lavender pink - but the one in the picture goes outside in the summer, and when it gets alot of direct sun, it gets the dark pink flowers pictured. Sorry the pic is so fuzzy, but the color is obvious. I may have posted this picture here recently, if so, I apologise for being redundant....but I just loooove the color! I tried moving all my carnosas into full sun to see if they would be this dark pink, but it doesn't work. Only this one. One downside though is that the foliage gets kind of yellow in the full sun...but after summer is over, it greens up again. It is worth it to me.

This message was edited Jun 29, 2009 9:55 PM