Hello,
I just picked up an EA hoya today. I know that it is mislabeled because I recognize the picture. Not to long ago I saw a thread here where someone had made a list of the EA hoya name and the proper name. I have searched here and can't seem to find it again.
Can someone help me out please.
Thanks,
Dee
EA list of plant names
Hi Dee,
I just searched but can't find that list either! I know it wasn't too long ago but I can't seem to find it again. Is it possible to post a photo of your hoya for identification? I have a few of the EA Hoya's too.
They sell this one as kentiana which I think is wayettii: http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=121 Mine had no tag when I bought it and I thought it was kentiana but it has the dark edges on the leaves and someone identified it as wayetti.
This one they label bilobata but I think it's DS-70: http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=119
I have two of these they sell as mini waxleaf which are lacunosa: http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=122
This one: http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=124 they call carnosa rubra and variegata is carnosa rubra a/k/a "Krimson Princess".
Their Hoya stripes is H. curtisii: http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=249
The one they sell as sp. Sulawesii: http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=125 is I think H. brevialata
This one they sell as 'Tricolor': http://www.exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=126 is Hoya carnosa Tricolor a/k/a "Krimson Queen.
I love it!! Lin, you just did my homework for me. I have been wondering about the proper names.......particularly the waxleaf being a lacunosa and I really want the brevialata but didn't think EA offered it under Sulawesii.
I'm hoping I got those correct. I have brevialata and it's an EA plant and looks just like the one they have labeled Sulawesii. And my DS-70 is an EA and it was labeled bilobata. Neither of them had labels when I bought them.
Thank you for some of these: the one I got today was labeled Hoya stripes which you say is H. curtisii. That is the one I was trying to remember. Still searching. I know there were a few more, but this helps some.
No camera so can't post a picture, but looking back at the posts with picture of this and it is what mine looks like. Nice healthy plant in 8 inch pot. Got another one in a smaller pot and it was labeled mini wax leaf. Any ideas on this one? It has small green kinda narrow leaves.
Thanks,
Dee
Dee, Yes, the one they call Hoya stripes is definitely H. curtisii: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57686/
I had one but it didn't live long at all because I didn't know how to take care of it. At some point I might try that one again, it has such cute foliage and look at some of the photo's of the blooms in those photo's in Plant Files!
Let me see if I have a picture of lacunosa.
**edited to say that Lin thought that mini wax leaf is rally lacunosa. Does she look like this one?
This message was edited Jun 30, 2009 7:53 PM
Dee, the EA mini wax leaf is a variety of Hoya lacunosa: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/56314/ You will LOVE the fragrance of the blooms on that one! My favorite!
Gail, that is a great looking lacunosa!
Hmm, I just went to their website and they are selling their Hoya Stripes, which is what I got, for $15.47. Now how is it I got it at Target for $12.49? Also, they are only showing 2 hoya in stock.
Dee
Yes, the prices of their online plants are much more than what you pay at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes etc. And, you have to pay postage on top of that! It seems when they have them for sale on the website they sell out really quickly!
Yes that looks like it. It is really healthy looking and pretty full. I am going to have to change their tags. I appreciate the help. Guess I really need a camera if I am going to start asking questions about ones I buy. Just got into these not long ago.
Dee
I am always having to change tags on EA plants, even non-hoyas ... they always seem to be mislabeled.
The other one they have listed is H Rubra also known as Hoya carnosa variegata. Would this be correct. The leaves are white with green edges. Would this one be hard to find?
OK, I just went out and looked at them again. The one called mini wax leaf has lacunosa in small letters under it.
I have one labeled H. Sulawessi and H. Kentiana that are EA's as well.
I also have a variegated Hindu Rope but it is not an EA.
Hoya carnosa Rubra ("Krimson Princess"): http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57702/ leaves are white in the center with green edges.
Hoya carnosa Tricolor ("Krimson Queen"): http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57703/ leaves are green in the center with white edges.
Then we have Hoya carnosa Picta, that looks a lot like Rubra: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57706/ This one is also known as Exotica!
It sure is confusing when so many of them look alike and different places stick different names on them.
OMG! Now how am I supposed to keep up with all these different names, LOL.
I am going to have to go back to HD. They had one there the other day that looked like what they are calling Rubra, but can't remember what was on the tag. It was an EA though.
One advantage to putting the wrong names on your product is that everyone talks about you alot!!!! Great form of advertising!
I don't think companies put incorrect labels on their products on purpose, at least I hope thats not the case. My thought for the reason EA and many of the wholesale nurseries here in Fla have their plants mislabeled is because of a language barrier, with a majority of nursery employees not understanding or speaking English and apparently no quality control or whatever it would be called for catching the mistakes. The big box stores are going to purchase truckloads of plants whether they have labels or not.
I just picked up a Dischidia ruscifolia "million hearts vine" from Lowes last night. It is an EA. When looking it up on the internet, I found a couple of places with pictures that look just like the one I bought. Could it be possible that this one is labeled correctly. It sure is a cute little thing. Pretty full basket too.
Dee
Dee,
I didn't mean to insinuate that every single EA plant is mislabeled, on occasion I do find a few that are correctly named. I also have a D. rusifolia that I purchased last year and really like the interesting foliage. I'm hoping to someday see blooms on it but even if I never see the flowers, I love the teeny little leaves on this one.
Here's the link to Dischidia rusifolia in Plant Files so you can compare some of the photo's to your plant: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59602/
Here's a picture of mine ...
Lin...my comment about companies and labels was tongue in cheek. I would never accuse them of that. However, they are more interested in selling plants, not labeling them correctly... There are people who grow plants for years and never know how to spell the names. Just life.
Carol, I know you weren't accusing them of anything, LOL. I think it is a shame all wholesale growers and nurseries down here aren't better about proper labeling and a lot of it has to do with the labor force. Most of the nursery workers and field workers in the south are non english speaking. One time last year when at Home Depot garden center a lady was there from EA. When I pointed out to her a couple of hanging baskets with incorrect labels, she began looking at all the different kinds of plants, including herbs and seemed truly stunned that so many had the wrong labels stuck in the pots. She confirmed to me that there was a problem with non or little english speaking workers so I doubt the labeling practices will get better. They don't care and things will probably never change, it's all about the bottom line ... the $$$$.
I'm sorry, I thought when comments were made about wrong names on EA plants I guess I just assumed that most of them would be that way. Guess I will crawl back in my hole and be quiet. No slander meant just trying to make sure right names are on the right plants.
Dee
Dee,
You don't have to apologize for anything. I didn't mean to come across as saying that every EA plant always has the wrong name on it, I didn't mean to sound offensive in any way, so please forgive me if I did. Sometimes the typewritten word comes out sounding different than we mean it and I am one who sometimes doesn't express myself well when typing, LOL I should go back and read what I type before I hit send.
I too like to try to put the right names on my plants if possible. Your EA plant was probably correctly labeled. Sometimes I do find one here and there with the correct name it's just most of the time here in the Daytona Beach area where I live, the EA plants usually have the wrong names on them. I have posted many photo's here on DG to find names for my plants that I'm not sure about. I've even had a couple of plants identified that were totally different than what I thought they were (the label was wrong.) I've also discovered since joining DG that many plants have the same common names and yet they come from totally different families of plants, which makes it very confusing.
Please, don't stop posting. This is a great place with lots of helpful folks.
Lin
Lin,
I didn't find what you said offensive. I just took it to mean to don't always believe the labels on your plants. In all the stuff I have been reading on Hoya's and looking at all the pictures, I am more confused than when I got my first one. Like you maybe I need to watch how I put my questions. I do know about wrong names on some plants as I have alot of perennials and I get alot from Lowes and HD and know good and well that they aren't what they say they are in some cases.
Dee