I had buds on my Darwinii a while back but they blasted. Now I have this nice clump getting ready to open. I hope they make it! Crossing fingers!
Finally...Darwinii may bloom!
Nice, fat buds ... keeping my fingers crossed for you! Please post a picture when it opens!
VERY cool.
It opened! Its way better than I had hoped!
Thats really nice......how do you grow it? I lost mine this year, just packed up on me
Dominic
Gorgeous!!!
Its in a container, hanging in a Bauhinia tree. It has climbed up the tree and spread out onto several branches as far as 18 or so feet up. It has established itself epiphytically enough on the tree that if anything happens to the plant in the dirt of the basket, it will probably survive on the tree
Way to grow! That is just lovely.
Thats a hard one to get to bloom! Congrats......Its really neat, thanks for sharing.
They just really love 'ranging'...all over the place! And that hoya will probably stay warmer in the tree, that takes longer to cool down and retains some warmth, but also cool in the heat. They ain't dumb! Beats hanging around in a plastic pot.....!! LOL
Is this the dark form of Darwinii? It's beautiful!
I dunno, its the only one I have been able to locate so I took it. Its not an altogether common plant, like megalaster which I have been wanting forever but refuse to pay the steep $$$ for places like Asiatica
check at www.dischidia.com for H. darwinii.... as for megalaster...it is a really realllyt realllllllly hard plant to grow for me....
That's where I got mine from, Antone's place
LOL- I just got megalaster from Asiatica! Although I went in person, so I did save on shipping! The leaves are beautiful!
Kelly
Perhaps their 'in person' plants are larger than their {very expensive even before shipping} mail order plants. I won't buy from Asiatica mailorder, ever again. Too pricey. Eventually, everything they have shows up somewhere locally here in Florida, at a cheaper price
The megalaster was the most expensive Hoya I got from David Liddle.
I swear...the only time I have had a megalaster survive past 1 pair of leaves is to TOTally ignore it...don't water it (or do from time to time) and forget it is there. Then it grows maybe 3 sets of leaves and.....be still my heart...a peduncle and a bloom...ONCE in 7 years I have had a bloom.... Ted Grows his outside in semi shade ... it seems t appreciate the open air/breeze! Does zilch inside the greenhouse. Can you tell I am not thrilled with this hoya! Much prettier ones that are much easier to grow.
I have heard/read that most of the megalasters sold are actually really onyochoides (I know I misspelled that) and that the flowers are so close it really takes an expert to tell the difference, the latter being easier to root and grow as well
Hmmmmm, the leaves are very different. Onychioides is more like archboldiana or macgillivrayi.
Maybe it wasn't that one then. I think I read this in the Asiatica catalog (they send me one because I purchased from them about 3 years ago on eBay) I will check
No, it was that pair.
I know I have read this somewhere besides Asiatica catalog, someone wrote this comment on a forum or somewhere. But the Asiatica catalog entry for megalaster says:
"...most plants called megalaster in the USA are H. onychoides...we sell the true species..."
And under Onychoides they wrote: "...often confused with H. macgillivrayii and H. megalaster..."
Which seems strange to me as I think that the flowers look pretty different on those guys.
I know a friend of mine in So FL bought 2 what she was told were megalaster and when they bloomed they were not. She thinks that they are macgillivrayii.
Well...Asiatica sounds very confused!
Agreed.
What I really don't like is that they seem to make up names for things that they sell that already had pre-existing names in the plant trade. I don;t know it they are perhaps using names that come from their Thai suppliers, or if they just dream up these names out of the air (like if I recall correctly they were calling the aureo- variegated Alocasia gagnea something like "Alocasia Seven Colors"?? What's up with that?) They have quite a feww seemingly "whimsical" names like that for things that were already being sold under other names.
I've visited Asiatica's website and "lurked" but have never ordered from them. Looks like the feedback in Garden Watchdog is a mixed bag: http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/519/