Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #99, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
ardisia: That Hoya pubicalyx 'Red Buttons' is gorgeous! I have a couple of H. pubicalyx. One I received as a cutting in a Hoya co-op from Australia in (I think) 2008. It's supposed to be Royal Hawaiian Purple but someone said it looked more like Red Buttons or Pink Silver. I still have it labeled as RHP because the new foliage is real purple like RHP is supposed to be. It has buds right now so I will be posting a picture of the bloom when it opens. I also have a very large pubicalyx that is probably Pink Silver that I received as a small plant in a trade a few years ago ... it's grown and grown but hasn't bloomed yet!

This is the bloom from my Royal Hawaiian Purple last year: